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In tree rings, Japanese scientists find 8th-century mystery
Jun 03, 2012 (AFP)
In the late eighth century, Earth was hit by a mystery blast of cosmic rays, according to a Japanese study that found a relic of the powerful event in cedar tre...
Electric Moon Jolts the Solar Wind
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it c...
German Astronomers Finish Europe's Largest Solar Telescope On Tenerife
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
After ten years of development, the new German solar telescope GREGOR will start operating at the Spanish Observatorio del Teide of the Instituto de Astrofisica...
Oslo-physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containi...
Sunspot Has Produced M-Class Flares, But No CMEs
May 11, 2012 (SPX)
A particularly large and complex sunspot appeared over the left limb of the sun on Saturday, May 5, beginning its two-week trek across the face of the star in c...
Giant sunspots visible from Earth
May 09, 2012 (UPI)
Giant sunspots have sent clouds of particles toward Earth that could bring northern auroras but aren't expected to disrupt communications, U.S. scientists said....
Climatic effects of a solar minimum
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
An abrupt cooling in Europe together with an increase in humidity and particularly in windiness coincided with a sustained reduction in solar activity 2800 year...
ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter
May 03, 2012 (ESA)
ESA has awarded the contract to build its next-generation Sun explorer to Astrium UK. Solar Orbiter will investigate how the Sun creates and controls the helios...
UK company to build Sun orbiter: ESA
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
The European Space Agency said Friday it had awarded a 300-million-euro ($400 million) contract to a British technology firm to build a satellite to examine the...
Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around b...
Russian RESONANCE and Interheliozond projects: linking Sun and Earth
Apr 25, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
Not nearly as spectacular as astrophysical or planetary missions, magnetospheric studies are nevertheless closer to the Earthling's wellbeing, since plasma envi...
Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the sun
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely - the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar mag...
Teamwork: IBEX and TWINS Observe a Solar Storm
Apr 13, 2012 (SPX)
On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the ma...
SDO and STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does - look through the da...
Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the...
Solar Eruptions Cause Sunquakes
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
A study led by UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory has shown for the first time that sunquakes can be produced during eruptions of magnetic field and charged...
Met Office to Provide Space Weather Warnings for Planet Earth and Forecasts for Exoplanets
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
The UK Met Office's weather and climate model is being adapted to help understand space weather at Earth and the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. Tw...
Supersonic snowballs in hell how comets interact with the Sun's atmosphere
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
Since the 1980s astronomers have seen thousands of comets falling towards the Sun, most of them too small to survive a close approach, let alone to re-emerge. U...
Solar Climate Change Could Cause Rougher Space Weather
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree r...
TWINS and IBEX observe impact of powerful solar storm from inside and outside Earth's magnetosphere
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-...
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