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Coming Solar Minimum Could Chill the Earth, New Forecast Predicts
SunspotsThe solar minimum occurs roughly every 11 years, when fewer sunspots like these appear.NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterSunspots may be going into hibernation, a phenomenon unseen since the 17th...
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Video: Three Solar Flares Spark Power Grid Concerns and Ignite Auroras in the...
Solar Flare Aug. 4This still from a video shows the CME lifting off from sunspot 1261.NASA/SDOA trifecta of sunsplosions over the past few days has prompted government agencies to once again warn of...
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Space Weather Is Worsening; Could Mean Risk for Astronauts and Delay Manned...
Solar Flare and CME, Feb. 2010NASAOur sun has been more active lately as it enters a new phase in its 11-year cycle, which is one reason we've seen a bunch of enormous coronal mass ejections and solar...
View ArticleGallery: Last Night's Auroras as They Appeared from Across the Hemisphere
If you saw it firsthand then you had no choice but to notice it, but for the rest of us who weren't so lucky, here's the deal: yesterday a coronal mass ejection, a.k.a. a CME, a.k.a. a solar storm or a...
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Video: Massive Solar Eruption Expels a Beautiful Prominence
The Solar Eruption of April 16, 2012NASA/SDO/AIAYesterday--at least in the northeast U.S.--was a picture-perfect, sun-shiney day. But as many of us took a few extra minutes at lunch to soak up one of...
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Today On Mars: Curiosity Records Hurricane-Like Air Pressure Swings
The Weather on MarsEarlier this year the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a whirling dust devil twisting its way across northern Mars.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UAMars Rover Curiosity is above...
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Big Pic: A Bright Flash From The Sun
Solar FlareNASA/SDOAt 8:30 p.m. Eastern time yesterday, a solar flare peaked on the surface of the sun, emitting an intense burst of radiation. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the M9.4-class...
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Bad Space Weather May Have Caused Fatal Afghan Gun Battle
US ChinookFlickr/The U S Army, CC BY 4.0Three American soldiers* may have died in Afghanistan’s battle of Takur Ghar because of disruptions caused by plasma bubbles – a form of space weather –...
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SpaceX Scrubs Launch Of DSCOVR Satellite
Update 5:53 p.m. Well that was quick. High upper altitude winds scrubbed the launch for tonight, so SpaceX will have to try again tomorrow. See you then!Update 5:50 p.m. We're getting ready to roll!...
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This Glider Will Study Weather At The Edge Of Space
Concept Art Perlan 2 GliderAirbus Group, Inc.An engineless glider could soon soar above the lofty heights reached by the legendary U-2 and the SR-71 spyplanes. But first it needs to do a few test...
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It's Raining Frigid Gas At This Giant Black Hole
Space A new kind of space weather New kind of space weather found near black hole…
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A New Map Will Help Predict Earth's Response to Space Weather
Science Helping the Earth combat solar storms The Earth's magnetic field protects the planet from solar storms. But the planet's crust plays a role, too…
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We're About To Get Regional Forecasts For Solar Storms
Energy Cloudy with a chance of coronal mass ejection Forecasting the path of a storm is hard enough. But forecasting the path of a storm headed towards Earth from a distance of 92.6 million miles?...
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NASA observatory captures a rare stretch of our sun without spots
Space Like a giant egg yolk in the sky How often does the sun show itself without a spot to be seen? Read on.
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We may have accidentally formed a protective bubble around Earth
Space Radio waves might help protect us from space weather. Some radio waves may be forming a protective bubble around Earth’s atmosphere. Read on.
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Today On Mars: Curiosity Records Hurricane-Like Air Pressure Swings
Technology We knew temperatures at the Martian surface were volatile, but it turns out the barometric pressure regularly fluctuates as if a hurricane were passing over. Mars Rover Curiosity is above...
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Big Pic: A Bright Flash From The Sun
Technology A mid-level burst of radiation looks like a twinkle in the sun's eye. At 8:30 p.m. Eastern time yesterday, a solar flare peaked on the surface of the sun, emitting an intense burst of...
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Bad Space Weather May Have Caused Fatal Afghan Gun Battle
Military Specifically, bubbles may be to blame. Three American soldiers* may have died in Afghanistan’s battle of Takur Ghar because of disruptions caused by plasma bubbles – a form of space weather –...
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SpaceX Scrubs Launch Of DSCOVR Satellite
Space The company will try again Wednesday evening Update 5:53 p.m. Well that was quick. High upper altitude winds scrubbed the launch for tonight, so SpaceX will have to try again tomorrow. See you...
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This Glider Will Study Weather At The Edge Of Space
Aviation Its first test flight is on Wednesday An engineless glider could soon soar above the lofty heights reached by the legendary U-2 and the SR-71 spyplanes. But first it needs to do a few test...
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