News tagged with aurora

Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 08, 2009 | 4 / 5 (44) | 10

(AP) -- When the sun sneezes it's Earth that gets sick. It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical standards, one ...

Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora on Saturn

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 12, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (33) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared ...

Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 24, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first video showing the auroras above the northern latitudes of Saturn, Cassini has spotted the tallest known "northern lights" in the solar system, flickering in shape and brightness ...

The auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres are not identical (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 23, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 12

In a Nature letter published July 23, 2009, Norwegian researchers present evidence that the auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres can be totally asymmetric. These findings contradict the co ...

Dividing cells find their middle by following a protein 'contour map'

Biology /

Jun 30, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Self-organization keeps schools of fish, flocks of birds and colonies of termites in sync. It’s also, according to new research, the way cells regulate the final stage of cell division. Scientists at Rockefeller University ...

Autonomous Antarctic Observatories Gather Space Weather Data

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 09, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international scientific consortium has developed a series of autonomous observatories in Antarctica that for the first time provide critical year-round "space weather" data from the Earth's ...

Final rocket launches, measures aurora movement

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

It's been a long wait, but it was worth it. The Black Brant XII sounding rocket with the CASCADES II experiment launched and flew through an active aurora display March 20 at 3:04 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time. The successful ...

Aqua satellite confirms another tropical cyclone may impact the Philippines

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Philippine Sea during the early morning hours today, November 2 infrared imagery saw another new tropical cyclone coming together.