Showing posts with label sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sun. Show all posts
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Giant Solar Tornado Caught In NASA Video

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Monster Solar Tornadoes Discovered -- MSNBC/Discovery News Tempests measure width of several Earths and swirl at speeds of up to 190,000 mil...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Sun Unleashes Largest Solar Flare In Five Years

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Sun Unleashes Largest Solar Flare In Five Years, Sending 10Billion Ton Storm Cloud Hurtling Through Space At 5Million MPH -- Daily Mail ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Three Solar Flares Spark Power Grid Concerns

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Solar Flare Aug. 4 This still from a video shows the CME lifting off from sunspot 1261. NASA/SDO Video: Three Solar Flares Spark Power Gri...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Magnetic Waves Help Make Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter

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Powerful Magnetic Waves Help Make Sun’s Atmosphere Hotter Than Sun Itself -- Discover Magazine What’s the News: An international team of res...
Monday, June 13, 2011

What Could A Solar Flare Do To Us?

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CME NASA When The Sun Unleashed Its Plasma Blast This Week, Earth Got Lucky -- Popular Science What a predicted 2013 blast from the sun coul...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

A Global Katrina Sun Storm

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The Sun is waking up from a quiet period and is likely to throw a lot more 'space weather' at the Earth, according to the Government...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Solar Physicists Will Soon have Their First 360-Degree View Of Our Star

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Image: The Stereo satellites are already feeding data into space weather forecasts Stereo Satellites Move either Side Of Sun -- BBC Two US ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Britain Vulnerable To Space Nuclear Attack Or 'Solar Flare' Storm, Conference Told

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Dr Fox highlighted warnings from scientists that essential infrastructure such as satellites, could be paralysed by a once-in-a-century sol...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Quiet Sun Leads To Upper Atmosphere Collapse

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Solar storms have dropped to unusually low levels from 2007 to 2009. Credit: SOHO Consortium/ESA/NASA From Cosmos/AFP: WASHINGTON: The upper...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

India To Build World's Largest Solar Telescope

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Photo: Currently, the world's largest solar telescope is the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, with a diameter of 1.6 metres in Kitt Peak ...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

NASA Planning Mission To Visit The Sun

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Artist Representation of Solar Probe Plus (Credit: NASA) From The CBS: We know it's hot up there but NASA wants to know a bit more about...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Diving Deep Into A Solar Prominence (SDO First Light)

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April 21, 2010 -- What you're seeing here is the highest resolution photograph of the sun available to date, part of a brand new series ...

Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory Returns First Images

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SDO sees the Sun's whole disc but can then zoom in to view fine detail From The BBC: Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory has provided ...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Space Storms Could Knock Out National Grid And Sat Navs

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From The Telegraph: Space storms caused by the Sun could knock out power supplies and satellite navigation systems in Britain, claim scienti...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Solar Explosion Tracked All The Way From The Sun To Earth

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The Sun imaged with the EIT instrument on the SOHO spacecraft. The eruption event studied by the team originated in the brighter active regi...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Should I Be Worried About Electromagnetic Pulses Destroying My Electronics?

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Sun Spots Solar storms, like this one captured by NASA’s STEREO satellite, could knock out the power grid. NASA From Popular Science: It ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Solar Storms Create 'Killer Electrons'

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A stream of charged particles from the Sun hits Earth's magnetosphere. Credit: NASA From Cosmos: SYDNEY: 'Killer electrons' - el...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Massive Solar Storms of the Future Could Reap Katrina-Scale Devastation

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Plasma of the Sun I'm looking at you, Earth Hinode JAXA/NASA From Popular Science: If storms as strong as the biggest recorded in the...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Great Filament

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From Watts Up With That? The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic filament on the sun. It stretches mo...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Rhythm of Our Star

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An image taken at dusk with TON (Taiwan oscillations of networks). The profile of the house is real. (Credit: Image courtesy of Instituto de...