News tagged with northern lights
Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn's Northern Lights (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Space tourism from Sweden to start in 2012
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Mar 18, 2009 |
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Short tourist flights into space are expected to begin launching from northern Sweden in 2012, one of the companies involved in the project said Wednesday.
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Northern Lights thrill southern Norway
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2006 |
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The Northern Lights, common in northern Norway, went south a bit to provide a brilliant nighttime light show in Oslo.
Northern Lights to Your Mobile Phone
Jan 31, 2005 |
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If you are touring in Finnish Lapland, you no longer need to shiver outside when watching the heavens in order to see the Northern Lights. Information about the Northern Lights can now be received directly into a mobile phone ...
Earth Hour had impact, utilities say
Mar 31, 2008 |
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Utility officials in northern Illinois said residents reduced the same amount of carbon dioxide as 104 acres of trees during the Earth Hour power turnoff.
NASA Satellites Discover What Powers Northern Lights
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers using a fleet of five NASA satellites have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the ...
Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms
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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 ...
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 ...
Smart brake light system would provide more information to drivers
Mar 26, 2008 |
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You are driving in heavy traffic. The brake lights on the car in front of you come on. Is the car slowing or is it going to stop? It slows to 25 mph and the lights go off. You drop back. The car in front of ...
Many take dim view of new-fangled Christmas lights
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.
Norwegian meteorite impact site located
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2006 |
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Norwegian scientists say they've determined where a meteorite struck ground last week and now researchers are debating its impact.
Northern lights research enters final frontier
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2007 |
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An international team of scientists -- including physicists from the University of Calgary -- will begin gathering the most detailed information yet about the ever-changing northern lights, as a multi-year research project ...
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