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SDO sees ‘Dark Fireworks’ on the Sun
From Science@ NASA: On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only “M” (for medium) on the Richter scale of...
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Solar activity on the upswing, big sunspot rotating into view is producing...
From Spaceweather.com: New sunspot 1302 has already produced two X-flares(X1.4 on Sept. 22nd and X1.9 on Sept. 24th), can another be far behind? NOAA forecasters put the 24-hour probability at 20%. The...
View ArticleSun spotless for 33 days straight – airline travelers getting dosed with up...
Are we in a solar grand minimum? We’ve seen this before, but now predictions are for an extremely weak solar cycle ahead. Today is the summer solstice in the northern… The post Sun spotless for 33 days...
View ArticleNASA’s SDO Sees New Kind of Magnetic Explosion on Sun
from NASA Dec. 17, 2019 NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the… The post NASA’s SDO...
View ArticleNASA sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new model that successfully predicted seven of the Sun's biggest flares from the last solar cycle, out of a set of...
View ArticleA new look at sunspots
NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up - one of the agency's spacecraft is even on its way to fly through the Sun's outer atmosphere. But sometimes...
View ArticleExploring the Solar Wind With A New View of Small Sun Structures
Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research...
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