News tagged with solar explosions
Watching solar activity muddle Earth's magnetic field
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Apr 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found that extreme solar activity drastically compresses the magnetosphere and modifies the composition of ions in near-Earth space. They are now looking to model how these ...
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'Focused' Solar Explosions Get Hotter
Apr 02, 2008 |
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A NASA-funded researcher has discovered that solar flares -- explosions in the atmosphere of the sun -- get much hotter when they stay "focused".
The Sun Shows Signs of Life
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2008 |
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After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway ...
EVE: Measuring the Sun's hidden variability
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's surface. Explosions as powerful as a billion atomic bombs spark intense flares of high-energy radiation. ...
Dirty Space and Supernovae
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Interstellar space may be strewn with tiny whiskers of carbon, dimming the light of far-away objects. This discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution may have implications for the “dark energy” hypothesis, proposed ...
The Sun's Sneaky Variability
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's surface. Explosions as powerful as a billion atomic bombs spark intense flares of high-energy radiation. ...
Taiwan chip giant TSMC to enter solar energy
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning its first foray into solar energy with an investment in the island's largest producer of solar cells, a spokesman said Thursday.
Hot Electrons Could Double Solar Cell Power Efficiency
Dec 18, 2009 |
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Scientists have experimentally verified a theory suggesting that hot electrons could double the output of solar cells. The researchers, from Boston College, have built solar cells that successfully use hot ...
Clemson astronomers to study mysterious antimatter in the Milky Way
Feb 16, 2009 |
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NASA has awarded Clemson astronomers $244,000 to use data from several space-based gamma-ray telescopes to study a mysterious emission coming from the central regions of the Milky Way galaxy.
Halloween Storms of 2003 Still the Scariest
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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, ...
How space eruptions happen
Apr 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians at the University of St Andrews have made a discovery which could lead to a better understanding of why huge eruptions occur in space.
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