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  STEREO Panoramic Images Improve Solar Storm Tracking

  March 5, 2007 — The latest panoramic images from National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) twin STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft enable scientists to track solar storms from ... > full story
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  Here's Comes The Sun: International Heliophysical Year To Examine Sun-Earth Relationship

  February 21, 2007 — The International Heliophysical Year has officially begun (Feb. 19, 2007) -- two years dedicated to a better understanding of the how the Sun affects the Earth and the other planets in the Solar ... > full story
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  Surprises From The Sun's South Pole

  February 20, 2007 — Although very close to the minimum of its 11-year sunspot cycle, the Sun showed that it is still capable of producing a series of remarkably energetic outbursts - ESA-NASA Ulysses mission ... > full story
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  Sophisticated Space Weather Tool Under Development

  February 4, 2007 — If a satellite encounters high-energy particles or other "space weather" phenomena before ground controllers can take action, on-board electronics could be disrupted, scientific instruments damaged ... > full story
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  Twin Spacecraft Swing Past Moon, Preparing For 3-D Solar Studies

  January 24, 2007 — NASA's twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., completed a series of ... > full story
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  Peering Into The Poles' Majestic Light Shows: Probes To Solve Mystery Of Auroral Substorms

  January 17, 2007 — Substorms in the Earth's magnetosphere turn the shimmering Northern and Southern lights into a dancing light show. A new NASA mission called THEMIS, designed and built by UC Berkeley scientists and ... > full story
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  SOHO Prepares For Comet McNaught

  January 11, 2007 — Recently, sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere have been enjoying the sight of Comet McNaught in the twilight sky. Now, solar physicists using the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft are getting ready for ... > full story
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  Solar Satellite's First Images Show Sun's Super-Hot Atmosphere

  December 23, 2006 — NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories (STEREO) sent back their first images of the sun this week and with them a view into the sun's mounting ... > full story
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  Solar Flare Keeps Space Agencies Busy

  December 16, 2006 — An energetic storm on the Sun has forced ESA mission controllers to react to anomalies or take action to avoid damage to spacecraft. Several missions, including Integral, Cluster and Envisat, felt ... > full story
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  Solar Physicist Says Weak Sun Produces Record Solar Outburst

  December 16, 2006 — A solar outburst, which can play havoc with global positioning systems and cell phone reception, bombarded Earth, Dec. 6, 2006, with a record amount of radio noise, said solar physicist Dale ... > full story

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