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  Scientists Help NASA 'Follow The Sun' -- In Stereo

  October 18, 2006 — The University of Minnesota-designed and built instruments aboard the twin spacecraft of NASA's STEREO mission -- currently scheduled for launch October 25 from Cape Canaveral, Florida -- will detect ... > full story
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  Supernova Radioisotopes Show Sun Was Born In Star Cluster, Scientists Say

  October 4, 2006 — The death of a massive nearby star billions of years ago offers evidence the sun was born in a star cluster, say astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being an ... > full story
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  Details Of Solar Particles Penetrating The Earth's Environment Revealed

  October 3, 2006 — Co-ordinated efforts by China/ESA's Double Star and ESA's Cluster spacecraft have allowed scientists to zero in on an area where energetic particles from the Sun are blasting their way through the ... > full story
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  Solar Flares Could Seriously Disrupt GPS Receivers

  September 27, 2006 — A minor solar flare in September 2005 produced a noticeable degradation of all GPS signals on the day side of the Earth. When scaled up to the larger solar flares expected in 2011-12, Cornell ... > full story
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  Meteorites Record Past Solar Activity

  September 26, 2006 — Ilya Usoskin (Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, Finland) and his colleagues have investigated the solar activity over the past centuries. Their study is to be published this ... > full story
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  Space Weather Gear Readied For The Final Frontier

  September 22, 2006 — Atmospheric outflows, auroral emissions and plasma winds? While those aren't terms we hear on the average weather forecast, they cause cosmic storms that rage just outside the Earth's atmosphere and ... > full story
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  Solar-B: A New Solar Mission To Study The Dynamic Sun

  September 20, 2006 — A new Japanese-led solar mission with ESA participation is preparing for launch on Sept. 23, 2006. Solar-B will study the mechanisms which power the solar atmosphere and look for the causes of ... > full story
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  Changes In Solar Brightness Too Weak To Explain Global Warming

  September 14, 2006 — Changes in the sun's brightness over the past millennium have had only a small effect on Earth's climate, according to a new study appearing in Nature. The results imply that human activities are ... > full story
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  Probing The Most Energetic Explosions In The Solar System

  September 11, 2006 — Solar flares are tremendous explosions on the surface of our sun, releasing as much energy as a billion megatons of TNT in the form of radiation, high energy particles and magnetic fields. The sun's ... > full story
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  Spacecraft Designed to Capture 3-D Views of Sun Set For Launch

  August 20, 2006 — Two nearly identical spacecrafts, destined to capture the first-ever 3-D views of the sun, are scheduled for launch on Aug. 31 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ... > full story

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