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US Celestial Storm Warnings
Friday, 25 March 2011 Peter Vincent Pry - The Hill's Congress BlogWhite House Science Advisor John Holdren and Sir John Beddington, Science Advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a recent joint article "Celestial Storm Warnings" published in the New York Times, warned that a solar flare from the Sun could cause a great geomagnetic storm, with catastrophic consequences for the United States and the world. A great geomagnetic storm would ...
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Latest Solar Flare Images from NASA
Friday, 18 March 2011 Dr. WeblogThe animated image below is rendered by NASA utilizing multiple still images spanning almost a week of data.
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Geomagnetic Field Reveals Increasing Danger
Wednesday, 16 March 2011 Terrence Aym - Helium(CHICAGO) - Russian geophysicist Pogrebnikov concurs with his colleagues at Harvard and Stanford: the earth may be in for a hell of a time.Imagine events just short of doomsday and you'll have a ...
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Another X-Class Solar Flare And A CME!!
Thursday, 10 March 2011 Tony Phillips/Holly Zell - NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterUPDATE - Earth's magnetic field is still reverberating from a CME strike on March 10, 2011 which resulted in a G1-class geomagnetic storm. Northern Lights have rippling over the US-Canadian bor...
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AAAS 2011 Annual Meeting News
Thursday, 24 February 2011 Bob Roehr - AAASScientists Warn that a Massive Solar Storm Could Wreak Havoc on World's Electrical Gear The Sun and its massive bursts of electromagnetic radiation thrown off as solar flares dominate space we...
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Overdue Solar Storm Could Cause Massive Disaster
Monday, 21 February 2011 New York Metro NewsScientists are warning that Earth is overdue for a sun storm that could have devastating impact on our planet — creating a "Katrina-style disaster," according to a report by the Daily Mail...
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2011 Valentine’s Day Solar Flare
Sunday, 20 February 2011 Susan Hendrix - NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterThree CMEs (Solar Flares) erupted on February 13, 14, and 15 (UTC). The second CME powerful solar eruption was the largest in 4 years. The last of the three was the the fastest. All three CMEs light...
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A $2 Trillion Solar Storm Warning
Sunday, 20 February 2011 Clive Cookson - Washington PostThe sun is waking up from a long quiet spell. Last week it sent out the strongest flare for four years - and scientists are warning that earth should prepare for an intense electromagnetic storm tha...
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Amazing Photos of the Sun
Wednesday, 09 February 2011 NASAOur Sun is large enough to contain 1,297,000 Earth's!The size of our own Earth surpasses all thought. All that man has built on the whole world , ships, cities, and villages taken together would ...
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Numerical Model Provides Solar Storm Warnings
Monday, 31 January 2011 Scientific ComputingA coronal mass ejection (CME) in a model; the CME is the gray cloud toward the lower right. Courtesy of Dusan Odstrcil, George Mason University. The first large-scale, physics-based space weather pre...
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Tracking Solar Storms
Wednesday, 26 January 2011 Dr. WeblogNASA utilizes two space-based observatories called STEREO. One is ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind. With this new pair of viewpoints, scientists all over the world are able to...
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The US Executive EMP Attack Report
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 Dr. Weblog - NestLinkChairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center states, "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicti...
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Over 2.4 Billion Needed to Fix US Power Grid
Monday, 17 January 2011 Dr. Weblog - NestLinkOver 2.4 billion dollars, that’s $2,500,000,000 US, is needed to fix the United States of America’s Power Grid from total collapse during the 2013 Solar Storm Maximum; currently predicted by The Solar...
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Solar Cycle Progression
Sunday, 16 January 2011 Dr. Weblog - NestLinkThe Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Panel includs the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The Solar Cycle 24...
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March 2013 Solar Storm Data
Saturday, 15 January 2011 Dr. Weblog - NestLinkDuring Solar Cycle 24, the sunspot numbers and radio flux data highlighted in yellow will be at the highest starting March 2013.The data below was presented by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Nati...
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Sun’s Corona Millions of Degrees
Thursday, 06 January 2011 NASA - Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)Hotspots found in Fountains on the Sun's Surface Help Explain Coronal Heating Mystery.Among the many constantly moving, appearing, disappearing and generally explosive events in the sun's at...
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