The star-tracking instrument aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express orbiter has been disabled by the massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection produced by the Sun over the past couple of days. Experts are hopeful that they will be able to bring the device back online soon.
The damage was mo... |
9 March 2012
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At 04:13 UTC on March 5, 2012, the Sun released a very powerful solar flare, followed shortly by an impressive coronal mass ejection. The event was one of the strongest recorded recently, and experts classified it as a X1-class emission. This class contains the most intense solar events. The Sun has been suspicious... |
6 March 2012
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A significant number of the 22,000 pieces of large space junk the US Department of Defense keeps track of could be forced to reenter Earth's atmosphere faster than currently possible, in the event of a large solar storm. The conclusion belongs to a new study conducted by investigators with the NASA Orbital Debr... |
31 January 2012
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Researchers from the University of Bradford have established a new method of predicting solar storms, thus avoiding widespread power and communications disruption, that triggers billions of pounds in costs.Until recently, solar forecast was made manually, after experts looked at 2D images of the sun and predicted its... |
1 September 2010
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Over the past year, astronomers have been concerned with the decreased levels of activity recorded by our Sun, which, if past cycles are any indicator, should be teeming with activity at this time. Very few sunspots and solar flares appeared earlier this year, but the scientific community sighed in relief over the 4t... |
7 July 2009
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The American space agency's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) twin observation spacecraft has allowed experts at NASA to observe a solar storm in 3D for the first time. This could bring about a new era of knowledge on how our star erupts, and what the underlying issues behind its coronal mass eje... |
29 April 2009
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Based on the historic accounts of the devastation the large 1859 solar storm did in its time, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a new report recently that makes us draw terrifying conclusions about the aftermath of a potential solar storm hitting the Earth and passing through the magnetic defenses our p... |
8 January 2009
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Here on Earth, life is protected relatively well from the effects of deadly radiation, due to the planet's magnetic field, which forms a protective shield against electrically charged energetic sub-atomic particles. However, though it has been more than three decades since the last man walked on the surface of t... |
12 December 2007
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