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A Taste of Solar Maximum
Monday, 23 July 2012 Science at NASA - Dr. Tony PhillipsForecasters say Solar Max is due in the year 2013. When it arrives, the peak of 11-year sunspot cycle will bring more solar flares, more coronal mass ejections, more geomagnetic storms and more auroras than we have experienced in quite some time.On the weekend of July 14, 2012, sky watchers around the world got a taste of things to come.It was mid-Saturday in North America when a coronal mass ...
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Solar Flares - What Does It Take to Be X-Class?
Tuesday, 09 August 2011 Karen C. Fox - NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterSolar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as CMEs, Coronal Mass Eject...
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How Big in Size are Solar Flares?
Wednesday, 30 March 2011 Scott A. Stevenson - WorldscottThis brief entertaining and informative video answers the question! The source video for the flare comes from NASA. Music video editing by Scott A. Stevenson. Great job Scott! You can email Scott @ ...
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Massive Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)
Monday, 28 February 2011 NASA - SOHOThe STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft caught a large coronal mass ejection as it roared away from the Sun and out into space in the opposite direction from February 26, 2011 to February 28, 2011. The brigh...
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NASA Films Large Solar Flare
Friday, 25 February 2011 ITN Productions - NASAFebruary 25, 2011 - A rather large flare (M3.6 rating) event blew out two waves of material from the Sun. The brighter ejecta emerged first, but it was soon out run by a narrower stream that shot out ...
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2011 Valentines Day X-Class Flare
Monday, 14 February 2011 NASAThis video clip is of the large X2 flare seen by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in extreme ultraviolet light on February 15, 2011, has been enlarged and superimposed on a video of SOHO's C2 cor...
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Sun's Coronal Mass Ejection to Damage Technology
Saturday, 22 January 2011 Dr. WeblogOur Sun can sometimes get angry and blast out planet with billions of tons of hot ionized plasma. It’s called a Coronal Mass Ejection, CME. In 1998 an enormous CME impacted the Earth causing a satel...
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NASA to Crash Probe Into Sun
Wednesday, 19 January 2011 Fox News - Professor and Aerospace Physicist Michio KakuA new NASA mission is hoping to unlock the Sun’s biggest mysteries. Every 11 years the Sun completes a Sun Spot Cycle sending out a burst of electrical radiation. Every 100 years, the Sun produces a...
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The End of Life As We Know It
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 Bill Hemmer – FOX News – America’s NewsroomThe Sun's Solar Maximum Storm of 2013 will cause the electrical power grid will be wiped out by the Sun’s current. Lights, computers, transportation, hospitals, all will go down. NASA's s...
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A Hole in the Sun's Corona
Monday, 10 January 2011 NASAThis Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on January 10, 2011 in extreme ultraviolet light captures a dark coronal hole just about at sun center....
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2013 Solar Storm Could Cost US Trillions
Wednesday, 15 December 2010 FOX Business Panel - Professor and Aerospace Physicist Michio Kaku2013 Solar Maximum Storm could cost the US trillions and set us back 100 years. Every 11 years, the Sun’s Magnetic Poles flip releasing a burst of radiation. Every 100 years, a monstrous burst of p...
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Solar Storms May Interrupt Cell Phones
Friday, 11 June 2010 Reporter Whit Johnson - CBS NewsCBS News Reporter Whit Johnson and NASA Astrophysicist Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta (also known as Lika) NASA Issues Solar Storm Warning saying intense sun storms have the ability to knock out our powe...
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Understanding The Sun and Space Weather
Friday, 04 June 2010 Richard Fisher - Head of NASA's Heliophysics DivisionEarth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC held a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the N...
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Sun’s Interaction with Earth’s Magnetic Field
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 Laura Motel - NASANASA's THEMIS mission has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth's magnetic field. The Earth’s magnetic field is like a giant bar magnet....
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