News tagged with magnetic storms
THEMIS satellite tracks electrical tornadoes in space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations ...
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Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the ...
Halloween Storms of 2003 Still the Scariest
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By the eerie light of a Halloween moon, while a chilly wind blows autumn-dry leaves askitter on bare and fingered branches, scary things can happen. Blood-sucking bats, creepy-crawly spiders, ...
Sun Often 'Tears Out A Wall' In Earth's Solar Storm Shield
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the Sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by ...
Spring is Aurora Season
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 04, 2008 |
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What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don’t forget the aurora borealis. Spring is ...
No Safe Place
Feb 23, 2007 |
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Imagine hiking across Antarctica, through ice, cold and bitter wind, enduring months of hardship, and finally arriving at the doorstep of the South Pole itself. At that moment you get hit by a Sahara sandstorm.
NASA researchers 'see' the sun's far side
Mar 09, 2006 |
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NASA announced Thursday it has, for the first time, seen through the sun to the star's far side.
Is a New Solar Cycle Beginning?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2007 |
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The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven't been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped over the sun's eastern limb ...
NASA Satellites Capture Start of New Solar Cycle
Jan 11, 2008 |
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NASA scientists say a new solar cycle is beginning, and this could have important repercussions for space-based technology ranging from GPS navigation to weather satellites.
The Day the Sun Brought Darkness (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2009 |
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On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because ...
Screaming CMEs Warn of Radiation Storms
May 28, 2007 |
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A CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) is a solar body slam to our high-tech civilization. CMEs begin when the sun launches a billion tons of electrically conducting gas (plasma) into space at millions of miles per hour. A CME cloud ...
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