News tagged with solar cosmic rays
The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms (w/Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with their first view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, ...
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Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high.
Los Alamos observatory fingers cosmic ray 'hot spots'
Nov 24, 2008 |
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A Los Alamos National Laboratory cosmic-ray observatory has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays. The research calls into question ...
Study: Cosmic rays do not explain global warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study supports earlier findings by stating that changes in cosmic rays most likely do not contribute to climate change.
Giant balloon flying high over Atlantic to catch cosmic rays
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged ...
Scientists: No link cloud coverage and global warming
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 11, 2009 |
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With the U.S. Congress beginning to consider regulations on greenhouse gases, a troubling hypothesis about how the sun may impact global warming is finally laid to rest.
Ulysses spacecraft data indicate Solar System shield lowering
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Sep 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the joint ESA/NASA Ulysses mission show that the Sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings have become available. This current state of ...
European astroparticle physicists to celebrate 100 years of cosmic ray experiments
Oct 02, 2009 |
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From 10 to 17 October 2009, in France, Italy, Spain and many other countries, astroparticle physicists will meet the public to reveal some of the most exciting mysteries of the Universe. Within the first European Week of ...
Cosmic raise in cloud
Jan 19, 2006 |
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New evidence that events in outer space affect the weather and climate of Earth has been revealed in a study by meteorologists at the University of Reading published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on Wednesday 18 Jan ...
Large Area Telescope explores high-energy particles
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is making some exciting discoveries about cosmic rays and the Large Area Telescope aboard Fermi is the tool in this investigation. Scientists in the ...
Milky Way's super-efficient particle accelerators caught in the act
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Thanks to a unique "ballistic study" that combines data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have now solved a long-standing mystery of the Milky Way's particle ...
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