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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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The Hi-C telescope took the photos on a 10-minute suborbital flight.
The ethereal green glow of Aurora Australis high over Concordia station in this stunning space wallpaper.
A coronal mass ejection from very active sunspot AR1520 was clocked at around 6.5 million miles per hour. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured the fireworks emanating from the far-side of the Sun. Includes - CME forecast track.
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The flare erupted from a sunspot known as AR 1520.
The sun emitted an M7.7 class solar flare on July 19, 2012. This video, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), shows the flare in 304 and 335 wavelengths.
This time-lapse video created by Brad Goldpaint (www.goldpaintphotography.com) is a visual representation of how the night sky and landscapes co-exist within a world of contradictions.
In this space wallpaper, Aurora Australis glows high over Concordia research base on July 18, 2011.
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba in space was awestruck by dazzling weekend southern lights on July 14 and 15.
Photographer Guy Strong (www.guystrongphotography.com ) created this amazing time-lapse of the the aurora borealis over Good Harbor Bay, Michigan in the early morning hours of July 16th, 2012.
The northern lights, Jupiter, Venus and the moon put on a dazzling display this past weekend.
See spectacular northern lights pictures from July 14-15, 2012, triggered by a huge solar storm.
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The space weather fallout from a powerful solar flare is pummeling planet Earth.
The warning system measures the intensity of charged particles from solar eruptions.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has provided multiple up close views in different wavelengths of the X1.4-class flare of July 12th, 2012. A geomagnetic storm and aurora sightings over a larger area on Earth are possible on July 14th.
Thursday's powerful solar eruption could bring spectacular auroras to the continental United States.
See spectacular northern lights pictures from July 2012 sent in to SPACE.com.
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