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Spring Is Aurora Season
March 6, 2008 — 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. ... > full story -
Sunspot Is Harbinger Of New Solar Cycle, Increasing Risk For Electrical Systems
January 7, 2008 — A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM ... > full story -
NASA Spacecraft Make New Discoveries About Northern Lights
December 11, 2007 — A fleet of NASA spacecraft, launched less than eight months ago, has made three important discoveries about spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of their power. ... > full story -
Regional Variation In Warming From Sun During Solar Cycle Shown By Satellite
November 13, 2007 — A NASA satellite is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate. Solar cycles, which span an ... > full story -
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Surface Warming And The Solar Cycle
August 1, 2007 — To accurately assess the effects of human-induced climate change, scientists must be able to quantify the contribution of natural variation in solar irradiance to temperature changes. The existence ... > full story -
Magnetic Field Uses Sound Waves To Ignite Sun's Ring Of Fire
May 29, 2007 — Sound waves escaping the sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun's atmosphere which appears as a ruby red "ring of fire" around the moon during a ... > full story -
NASA Spacecraft Make First 3-D Images Of Sun
April 23, 2007 — NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have made the first three-dimensional images of the sun. The new view will greatly aid scientists' ability to understand solar ... > full story -
Astronomer Backs Link Between Greenhouse Gases And Climate Change
April 19, 2007 — Professor Nigel Weiss, 2007 winner of the Royal Astronomical Society Gold medal, is rebutting claims that a fall in solar activity could cancel out the effects of man-made global warming. He ... > full story -
Global Positioning System Significantly Impacted By Powerful Solar Radio Burst
April 7, 2007 — During an unprecedented solar eruption last December, researchers at Cornell University confirmed solar radio bursts can have a serious impact on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other ... > full story -
Solar Blast From The Past Dwarfed Modern Ozone Destruction
March 22, 2007 — A burst of protons from the Sun in 1859 destroyed several times more ozone in Earth's atmosphere than did a 1989 solar flare that was the strongest ever monitored by satellite, a new analysis ... > full story
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