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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 Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) will study the belts of charged particles around our planet.
Looking through ultraviolet filters - a beautiful filament erupting from the Sun's surface can be magnificent, even mystical. On August 4th, 2012, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspots AR1538 and AR1540 sharing super-heated plasma.
An amateur astronomer snapped a photo of three solar prominences on the sun.
A cloud of plasma and charged particles is expected to deliver a glancing blow to the planet.
An M6-Class flare erupted fron Sunspot AR1532 on July 28th, 2012. Earth lies in the the path of the super-heated coronal mass ejection (CME). Geomagnetic storms are possible when the storm arrives.
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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