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Space Weather, Solar Flares & Sun Storms: Latest News
See our amazing collection of stories and features about the increasingly important topic of space weather (aka solar storms).
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Like a monstrous snake biting its own tail, a giant storm on Saturn only fizzled out after running into its own wake.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught video of the monster filament erupting from the sun on Jan. 31.
The Sunjammer will help test out technology that could be useful for space weather forecasting and interstellar travel.
The sun governs how an outer layer of Venus's atmosphere behaves.
Using specialized telescopes, scientists get a more colorful picture of the sun.
The sun's corona, its outer atmosphere, is actually hotter than the sun itself. See amazing photos of the sun's corona by NASA's rocket-launched Hi-C telescope.
The discovery may help explain why the sun's corona is hotter than the sun itself, scientists say.
For the first time, researchers have evidence of auroras outside of our solar system.
Photographer Chad Blakley (www.lightsoverlapland.com) snapped the aurora borealis over Abisko National Park on January 19th, 2013.
A proposal in Iceland takes place under a canopy of aurora.
Even small tweaks to the sun's weather cycle can have a ripple effect on Earth's climate.
Aurora photographer Chad Blakley (www.lightsoverlapland.com) shot this time lapse of an aurora shimmering through the clouds over Abisko National Park in Sweden on the night of January 13th.
A coronal mass ejection (CME) blasted toward Earth Sunday.
The medium-class flare erupted around 4 a.m. EST Friday (Jan. 11).
What would happen if Jupiter's Big Red Spot appeared on Earth?
The New Year's Eve solar eruption stretched across 160,000 miles, but was only a minor sun storm.
The sun's 11-year solar weather cycle is expected to hit its peak in 2013, but may fizzle compared to past events.
See how solar flares, sun storms and huge eruptions from the sun work in this SPACE.com infographic.
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