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IRIS Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists will soon gain a better view into energy and plasma movement near the surface of the sun, thanks to delivery of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrog...
NASA's Newest Solar Mission Spacecraft Delivered to Launch Site
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists will soon gain a better view into energy and plasma movement near the surface of the sun, thanks to delivery of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrog...
NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
As Earth moves around the sun, it travels surrounded by a giant bubble created by its own magnetic fields, called the magnetosphere. As the magnetosphere plows ...
CU-Boulder to receive $36 million from NASA for space weather mission
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
The University of Colorado Boulder will receive roughly $36 million from NASA to build and operate a space instrument for a mission led by the University of Cen...
Spring Fling: Sun Emits a Mid-Level Flare
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
The M6.5 flare on the morning of April 11, 2013, was also associated with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), another solar phenomenon that can send ...
Europe readies for solar storm risks
Apr 03, 2013 (AFP)
Europe launched its first space weather coordination centre Wednesday to raise the alarm for possible satellite-sizzling solar storms that also threaten astrona...
Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun
Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)
On March 15, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of so...
Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered
Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)
Using data from an aging NASA spacecraft, researchers have found signs of an energy source in the solar wind that has caught the attention of fusion researchers...
Van Allen belt study reveals surprises
Feb 28, 2013 (UPI)
Researchers say data from NASA space probes has forced a revision of theories about radiation belts around the Earth just a few thousand miles above our heads. ...
Giant sunspot seen making third trek across surface of the sun
Feb 28, 2013 (UPI)
A giant sunspot -- a magnetically strong and complex region on the sun's surface -- is making a third trip across the face of the sun, NASA reported Friday. Sun...
New Ellipsoidal Mirror Pushes Boundaries Of Solar Research
Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)
Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied a 350mm diameter on-axis ellipsoidal mirror to the Kiepenheuer-Institut fur Sonnenphysik (KIS) in Freiberg, Germany. The Kiep...
NRL Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP
Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory research physicists and engineers from the Plasma Physics Division, working at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program...
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)
Many areas of scientific research -- Earth's weather, ocean currents, the outpouring of magnetic energy from the sun -- require mapping out the large scale feat...
NASA's SDO Shows A Little Rain On the Sun
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
Eruptive events on the sun can be wildly different. Some come just with a solar flare, some with an additional ejection of solar material called a coronal mass ...
Understanding the Magnetosphere Better Than Ever
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
On Earth, scientists can observe weather patterns, and more importantly can predict them, through the use of tens of thousands of weather observatories scattere...
Year Three: NASA SDO Mission Highlights
Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)
On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) flew up on an Atlas V rocket, carrying in...
U.N. committee to discuss space weather
Feb 14, 2013 (UPI)
The U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space say it is adding a new agenda item for discussions this year: space weather and its impact on Earth. Spac...
The Sun Produces Two CMEs
Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)
In the evening of Feb. 5, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections or CMEs that may glance near-Earth space. Experimental NASA research models, bas...
Enigmatic Ribbon Of Energy Discovered by NASA Satellite Explained
Feb 07, 2013 (SPX)
After three years of puzzling over a striking "ribbon" of energy and particles discovered by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) at the edge of our sol...
New retention model explains enigmatic ribbon at edge of solar system
Feb 07, 2013 (SPX)
Since its October 2008 launch, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has provided images of the invisible interactions between our home in the galaxy and...
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