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NOAA/NASA/USAF Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Launching Feb. 8 to Monitor Solar Winds
The long awaited Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR science satellite is slated to blast off atop a SpaceX Falcon…
Awesome Photo Shows Monster Sunspot Aiming Our Way
It's a-comin': a "monster" sunspot is steadily rotating around the Sun's southern hemisphere and will soon be in position to fire…
A New Marker Might Better Track the Solar Cycle
Approximately every 11 years the Sun becomes violently active, putting on a show of magnetic activity for aurora watchers and…
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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to Provide 1st 3-D View of Earth’s Magnetic Reconnection Process – Cleanroom visit with Bolden
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses with the agency’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft, mission personnel, Goddard Center Director Chris Scolese and…
Monster Sunspot Erupts with an X-Class Flare
Solar astronomers have been keeping an eye on giant sunspot AR1944, and as it turned towards Earth today, the sunspot…
What Left These Spooky Trails in the Sky?
Ball lightning? Spectral orbs? Swamp gas? Early this morning, May 7, these eerie glowing trails were seen in the sky…
The White House Releases a Report on Space Weather
We live on a planet dominated by weather. But not just the kind that comes in the form of wind,…
Question About Space Weather? NASA Scientists Have Answers
What's the difference between a solar flare and a coronal mass ejection? What causes such energetic space events? Worried that…
Cold Plasma Flourishes In Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
[/caption] Thousands of miles above Earth, space weather rules. Here storms of high-energy particles mix the atmosphere, create auroras, challenge…
Stormy Weather: Brown Dwarf Star Could Model Extra-Solar Planet Atmosphere
[/caption]Thanks to the help of the infrared camera on the 2.5m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, astronomers are…