Sun Spits Out A Coronal Mass Ejection
The coronal mass ejection that erupted from the sun on Oct. 4, 2012 at 11:24 p.m. EDT arrived at Earth on Oct. 8 at 12:30 a.m. EDT, as observed by instruments aboard NASA’s Advanced...
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Songs from space reach ears on Earth
Oct. 4 – If you thought it was quiet in space, you were wrong. Instruments aboard NASA’s orbiting Radiation Belt Storm Probes have picked up audio from the phenomenon known as “chorus” radio waves...
The Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, CME
NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured this image of a particularly wide coronal mass ejection (CME) that erupted from the sun at 10:23 p.m. EDT on Sep. 27, 2012. The leading edge of the...
NASA | Magnificent Eruption in Full HD
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled away...
Massive solar flare delivers Earth a glancing blow
NASA’s orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has recorded more spectacular activity in the Sun’s atmosphere, with a solar flare whipping half a million miles into space, and sending a cloud of electrically charged particles...
Sun spits out ‘solar whip’ half a million miles long
Looking more science fiction than just straight science, an amazing tentacle-like eruption on the face of the sun has been captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Measuring half a million miles long and...
New space weather video shows increased solar activity
A new video from a sun-watching spacecraft shows just how much our star has woken up in the last three years. The video gives a side-by-side comparison of footage shot exactly three years apart...
NASA: The Radiation Belt Storm Probe
The Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission (RBSP) will explore the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Earth’s magnetosphere. The charge particles in these regions can be hazardous to both spacecraft and astronauts. Project Scientist...
Perseid Meteor Shower Brings Show of Shooting Stars
It’s been a big year for skywatchers, but if the ring of fire eclipse and the transit of Venus weren’t enough for you, you still have the year’s best meteor shower to look forward...
Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds
A key ingredient of Earth’s strangest clouds does not come from Earth. New data from NASA’s AIM spacecraft proves that “meteor smoke” is essential to the formation of noctilucent clouds.
