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IMAGE Satellite Snaps First Pictures From Space Of Earth's Double Aurora
March 16, 2001 — Among the first pictures captured by the Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, satellite, launched a year ago to study the Earth's magnetic shield, is the first global view of the ... > full story -
More Accurate Space Storm Warnings Now Possible
June 21, 2000 — The arrival from the Sun of billion-ton electrified-gas clouds that cause severe space storms can now be predicted to within a half-day, a great improvement over the best previous estimates of two to ... > full story -
USGS Issues Geomagnetic Storm Alert
June 9, 2000 — The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is bracing for the likely arrival of a major geomagnetic storm and possible auroral activity over the next few days. While it is geomagnetic storms that give rise to ... > full story -
Disruptions From Sun’s Geomagnetic Storms Forecast With "Cat-Scan" Of Solar Wind
June 2, 2000 — Three-dimensional images of magnetic storms from the Sun, developed by physicists at the University of California, San Diego and Japan’s Nagoya University, are allowing space-weather ... > full story -
Some Coronal Mass Ejections Are Caused By Shock Waves From Solar Flares In Other Regions Of The Sun
April 4, 2000 — Scientists have discovered that some CMEs are caused by solar flares not directly under them. Shock waves from the flares cross an interconnecting loop of solar material, causing it to eject hot ... > full story -
FAST Spacecraft Discovers Invisible Aurora
December 29, 1999 — An invisible aurora exists as a companion to the familiar visible aurora, also known as the aurora borealis, or northern lights, in the Northern Hemisphere and the aurora australis (southern lights) ... > full story -
Space Blobs Create Super-Speedy, Backward Auroras
June 3, 1999 — Blobs of electrified particles spew violently from the Sun, zoom at "warp speed" toward Earth's magnetic field, and trigger an unusual form of aurora, scientists have discovered using an ... > full story -
Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere
November 17, 1998 — A new imaging spectrometer developed at the University of Illinois will assist scientists who are studying auroras and their effects upon Earth's atmosphere. By discerning spectral ... > full story -
Spectrometer Measures Auroras' Impact On Ionosphere
November 4, 1998 — A new imaging spectrometer developed at the University of Illinois will assist scientists who are studying auroras and their effects upon Earth's atmosphere. By discerning spectral ... > full story -
Solar Flare Causes Intense Space Storm
September 28, 1998 — Rice University scientists report that a major geomagnetic storm began late on Sept. 24 and was continuing as of last Thursday. Intense auroral displays (the northern and southern lights) associated ... > full story
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