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Solar Flare: Space Weather Disrupts Communications, Threatens Other Technologies
February 18, 2011 — A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on ... > full story -
Cluster Encounters 'Natural Particle Accelerator' Above Earth's Atmosphere: How Northern and Southern Lights Are Generated
February 1, 2011 — The European Space Agency's Cluster satellites have flown through a natural particle accelerator just above Earth's atmosphere. The data they collected are unlocking how most of the dramatic displays ... > full story -
Falkland Islands Radar Study Impacts Climate Research: New Equipment Will Monitor Activity Which Creates the ‘Southern Lights’
October 22, 2010 — Physicists and engineers have installed a radar system on the Falkland Islands to monitor the upper atmosphere activity which creates the 'Southern Lights'. The new radar joins a network of 22 such ... > full story -
New Views of Saturn's Aurora, Captured by Cassini
September 29, 2010 — A new movie and images showing Saturn's shimmering aurora over a two-day period are helping scientists understand what drives some of the solar system's most impressive light ... > full story -
New Solar Prediction System Gives Time to Prepare for the Storms Ahead
September 1, 2010 — A new method of predicting solar storms that could help to avoid widespread power and communications blackouts costing billions of pounds has been launched by researchers in the ... > full story -
A Decade of Studying the Earth's Magnetic Shield, in 3-D
August 31, 2010 — Space scientists around the world are celebrating ten years of ground-breaking discoveries by "Cluster," a mission that is illuminating the mysteries of the magnetosphere, the northern lights and the ... > full story -
Evidence of New Solar Activity from Observations of Aurora in New Zealand
August 15, 2010 — Scientists have obtained sub-visual evidence of the onset of a new cycle of solar-terrestrial activity. The key results being reported deal with the fact that recent auroral displays at high ... > full story -
Discovery of Saturn’s Auroral Heartbeat
August 4, 2010 — Scientists have discovered that Saturn's aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn's upper atmosphere near the poles, pulses roughly once per Saturnian ... > full story -
Insights Into the Largely Invisible Interaction Between the Sun and Earth Provided by ESA's Cluster Mission
July 16, 2010 — ESA's pioneering Cluster mission is celebrating its 10th anniversary. During the past decade, Cluster's four satellites have provided extraordinary insights into the largely invisible interaction ... > full story -
Solar Explosion Tracked All the Way from the Sun to Earth
April 13, 2010 — Solar and space scientists have built the most complete picture yet of the full impact of a large solar eruption, using instruments on the ground and in space to trace its journey from the Sun to ... > full story
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