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Solar Flare Caused a ‘Crack’ in Protective Field Around Earth (Video)
A new study led by a team out of India has found that Earth’s protective magnetic field cracked after an intense geomagnetic storm observed by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope on June 22, 2015.
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New Early-Warning System Could Protect Earth From Explosive Space Weather
The sun can erupt with flares more energetic than 30 billion times the yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated.
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Our Predictions of Solar Storms Have Not Been Very Accurate Until Now – Here’s Why
When a space hurricane was unleashed from the sun on January 7 2014, space-weather centres around the world sent out warnings.
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Solar Storm to Hit This Weekend, Scientists Not Worried (Video)
Two solar flares which erupted in our direction this week will arrive this weekend. The resulting solar storm will be powerful but not dangerous.
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Earth’s Plasma Field Looks Like a Cosmic Angel, and Acts Like One Too
The angel seems to fly toward the sun. It’s trailing dress stretches a distance equivalent to 1,000 Earths, past the moon (which is only 60 Earths away).
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Listening to the Skies
Mysterious radio bursts from billions of light years away—one of many reasons to listen to the skies.
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Kepler Sheds Light on the Secrets of Superflares
Superflares are powerful magnetic events much larger than solar flares. They erupt above giant starspots on a variety of stars, but the mechanism behind them is unclear.
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Solar Storms Wipe Out Electrons in Earth’s Radiation Belt (Video)
As the sun approaches solar maximum in 2013, new light has been shed upon the effect of solar events on our planet’s magnetosphere.
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Solar Flare Emitted by Sun the Largest in Four Years
The largest solar flare in four years was seen shot out from the sun and is currently in progress.
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Solar Tsunami: Encore Tonight
“Solar tsunami” brings aurora borealis displays to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Norway, and other northern latitudes.
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Solar Flare Caused a ‘Crack’ in Protective Field Around Earth (Video)
A new study led by a team out of India has found that Earth’s protective magnetic field cracked after an intense geomagnetic storm observed by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope on June 22, 2015.
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New Early-Warning System Could Protect Earth From Explosive Space Weather
The sun can erupt with flares more energetic than 30 billion times the yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated.
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Our Predictions of Solar Storms Have Not Been Very Accurate Until Now – Here’s Why
When a space hurricane was unleashed from the sun on January 7 2014, space-weather centres around the world sent out warnings.
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Solar Storm to Hit This Weekend, Scientists Not Worried (Video)
Two solar flares which erupted in our direction this week will arrive this weekend. The resulting solar storm will be powerful but not dangerous.
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Earth’s Plasma Field Looks Like a Cosmic Angel, and Acts Like One Too
The angel seems to fly toward the sun. It’s trailing dress stretches a distance equivalent to 1,000 Earths, past the moon (which is only 60 Earths away).
|
Listening to the Skies
Mysterious radio bursts from billions of light years away—one of many reasons to listen to the skies.
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Kepler Sheds Light on the Secrets of Superflares
Superflares are powerful magnetic events much larger than solar flares. They erupt above giant starspots on a variety of stars, but the mechanism behind them is unclear.
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Solar Storms Wipe Out Electrons in Earth’s Radiation Belt (Video)
As the sun approaches solar maximum in 2013, new light has been shed upon the effect of solar events on our planet’s magnetosphere.
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Solar Flare Emitted by Sun the Largest in Four Years
The largest solar flare in four years was seen shot out from the sun and is currently in progress.
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Solar Tsunami: Encore Tonight
“Solar tsunami” brings aurora borealis displays to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Norway, and other northern latitudes.
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