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- A New Space Instrument Captures Its First Solar Eruption Tue, 18 May 21, 7:00pmSolar Orbiter has already taken the closest picture of the Sun to date, and it will only get closer. Solar Orbiter’s official mission begins in November, when SoloHI and the rest of the remote-sensing instruments will be...
- In First, Scientists Trace Fastest Solar Particles to Their Roots on the Sun Thu, 11 Mar 21, 9:00pm“Normally, you have to infer this kind of thing – you’d say, ‘look we saw an SEP and a solar flare, and the SEP probably came from the solar flare,’” said Wilson, who wasn’t involved in the study...
- Climate Craziness of the Week: The Weather Channel on crack Fri, 4 Jan 13, 9:20amNo, really, they must have been on crack when they came up with this one. I have no other explanation that works. First a primer. What is “Space Weather”? Wikipedia (agreed not the best source but humor me,...
- X-Class solar flare blasts CME directly at Earth Fri, 13 Jul 12, 2:00pmLarge sunspot Group AR1520, seen below just right of center, was pointed directly at Earth when the flare occurred. The GOES Xray Flux spike hit X 1.4, just barely an X-class: From Spaceweather.com Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed...
- White House gets serious about space weather Sat, 16 Jun 12, 5:07pmFrom EOS, Vol. 93, No. 25, 19 June 2012 White House and Agencies Focus on Space Weather Concerns “Space weather is a serious matter that can affect human economies around the world,” Tamara Dickinson, a senior policy...
- Geomagnetic solar storm in progress Tue, 27 Sep 11, 6:46amSpaceweather.com reports: A strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) at approximately 12:15 UT on Sept. 26th. The Goddard Space Weather Lab reports a “strong...
- Largest space weather storm in at least four years Sat, 19 Feb 11, 3:08pmMore solar images at the WUWT Solar Reference Page From the: University of Colorado at Boulder Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather...
- First Large-Scale, Physics-Based Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation Fri, 28 Jan 11, 7:00pmProvides forecasters with one-to-four-day advance warning of ‘solar storms’ A coronal mass ejection (CME) in a model; the CME is the gray cloud toward the lower right...