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Major solar storm alert: Third CME this week to hit Earth on May 10-11, possibly affecting satellite communications, GPS and power grids
The Sun has spewed out six X-class flares in the past week, the last three whoppers clocking in at …
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Why NASA says the total solar eclipse on Monday will be way cooler than any before it
The total solar eclipse will be visible to millions on April 8 as its path cuts from Texas to Maine…
Jenny McGrath,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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ISRO’s Solar Mission launch on Sept 2 – Here is how you can register to watch it from Sriharikota
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which recently made history by becoming the first co…
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The Moon photobombs NASA's view of the Sun
The Moon, where humans one day hope to live, photobombed the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis…
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Solar flare sparks radio blackout in parts of Asia and Australia
According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), the solar flare peaked late on April 17…
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A 'hole' 30 times Earth's size has spread across the sun, blasting solar winds that'll hit our planet by end of this week
A giant coronal hole, spotted Monday, is releasing rapid solar winds expected to reach Earth on Mar…
Rebecca Cohen,Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A stunning NASA time-lapse reveals a decade of the sun's solar flares, sunspots, and shifting magnetic energy
The bright flashes the video shows are eruptions like solar flares, while dark patches on the surfa…
Aria Bendix
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The most detailed photo ever taken of a sunspot shows a dark patch bigger than Earth roiling for 10,000 miles
The sun's powerful magnetic fields create dark spots where hot gases boil up from below. Earth's la…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A record-breaking NASA probe circling the sun has found never-before-seen spikes of solar wind and a flipping magnetic field
In energetic particle storms, events on the sun send out floods of the ions and electrons that make…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An 'Extreme' Solar Flare Just Erupted At Earth
According to Berman: "A government-sponsored panel in 2008 estimated that such a solar event today …
Ajai Raj
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Watch a solar flare capable of radio blackouts on Earth erupt into space
On April 17, 2016 the solar flare erupted on the sun's surface causing moderate radio blackouts, ac…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA has a brilliant plan to make the total solar eclipse last nearly 3 times as long
Part of the challenge is that the corona is difficult to study. It's dramatically dimmer than our s…
Dave Mosher
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NASA just released this incredibly rare photo of a double solar eclipse
For the first time in history, NASA has given us a glimpse of this rare event that you can only see…
Jessica Orwig
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Mind-Blowing Image Shows The Sun During An 'Unreal' Solar Eruption
The jets are localized, catastrophic releases of energy that spew material out from the sun into sp…
Leslie Baehr
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NASA Just Released Surreal Footage Of A Solar Flare On The Sun
The AP has just released video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The video shows a "mid-level…
Caroline Moss
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How To See The 'Comet Of The Century' Today
NASA spacecraft and astronomers are waiting to see if it will survive its perilous trip around the …
Dina Spector
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COMET ISON: The Most Exciting Thing To Happen On Thanksgiving
In the first and most exciting scenario, ISON could survive the passage of the sun and continue on …
Dina Spector
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Three Years Of Solar Explosions Compressed Into Three Minutes [VIDEO]
SDO's Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 differen…
Jennifer Welsh
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NASA video shows the sun just blasted out 4 eruptions at the same time. The rare event may have sent plasma hurtling toward Earth.
The sun is near the peak of its power, which may explain four solar flares erupting at once. They'r…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Hannah Getahun
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Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see
A Menlo Park, California, lab built this camera to learn about dark energy and dark matter, flag ha…