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  New Cassini Images Show 'Northern Lights' Of Saturn

  August 5, 2005 — New images of Saturn obtained by a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team on June 21 using an instrument on the Cassini spacecraft show auroral emissions at its poles similar to Earth's Northern ... > full story
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  NASA Study Finds Earth's Auroras Are Not Mirror Images

  April 11, 2005 — Scientists looking at the Earth's northern and southern auroras were surprised to find they are not mirror images of each other, as was once thought. The main cause behind the differences appears ... > full story
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  Chandra Probes High-Voltage Auroras On Jupiter

  March 9, 2005 — Scientists have obtained new insight into the unique power source for many of Jupiter's auroras, the most spectacular and active auroras in the Solar System. Extended monitoring of the giant ... > full story
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  Researchers Find Saturn's Radio Emissions, Bright Auroras Linked

  February 23, 2005 — Just as the static on an AM radio grows louder with the approach of a summer lightning storm, strong radio emissions accompany bright auroral spots -- similar to Earth's northern lights -- on the ... > full story
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  NASA Spacecraft Help Solve Saturn's Mysterious Auroras

  February 18, 2005 — Scientists studying data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope have found that Saturn's auroras behave differently than scientists have believed for the last 25 ... > full story
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  Solar Disturbances Spike Aurora Activity Across The Globe

  November 17, 2004 — A spot on the sun is bursting with large flares and tremendous coronal mass ejections, sending charged solar particles to Earth. The waves of particles descending on the planet are responsible for ... > full story
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  Spacecraft Fleet Tracks Blast Wave Through Solar System

  July 9, 2004 — A fleet of spacecraft dispersed throughout the solar system gave the best picture to date of the effects of blast waves from solar storms as they propagate through the solar ... > full story
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  UCSD Physicists See Solar Electrons, Auroras Associated With Recent Geomagnetic Storms

  December 11, 2003 — Using an orbiting camera designed to block the light from the sun and stars, an international team of solar physicists has been able for the first time to directly image clouds of electrons ... > full story
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  Stormy Space Weather Slips Through Cracks

  December 5, 2003 — Immense cracks in Earth's magnetic field remain open for hours, allowing the solar wind to gush through and power stormy space weather, according to new observations from NASA's IMAGE ... > full story
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  It's Official: The Biggest Solar X-Ray Flare Ever Is Classified As X28

  November 7, 2003 — It has just been announced that the massive solar X-ray flare which occurred on 4 November was, at best estimate, an X28. There is still a small chance this will be revised by a small amount, but it ... > full story

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