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Space Based Solar Power
Solar Power From SpaceGraham MurdochSatellites that capture light from the sun and beam power back to Earth On the ground, solar power has its limitations. Solar cells are not especially efficient. It...
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When The Sun Unleashed Its Recent Plasma Blast, Earth Got Lucky
CMENASAWhat a predicted 2013 blast from the sun could mean for the U.S.On Tuesday, the biggest solar flare in four years erupted from the sun, sending a mass of charged particles hurtling towards...
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Coming Solar Minimum Could Chill the Earth, New Forecast Predicts
Sunspots The solar minimum occurs roughly every 11 years, when fewer sunspots like these appear. NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterSunspots may be entering a hibernation period unseen in 400 years...
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Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?
Sun StrokeNASAA solar disaster isn't a question of if, but when--and it looks like soon One of the biggest disasters we face would begin about 18 hours after the sun spit out a 10-billion-ton ball of...
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Video: Three Solar Flares Spark Power Grid Concerns and Ignite Auroras in the...
Solar Flare Aug. 4 This still from a video shows the CME lifting off from sunspot 1261. NASA/SDOA trifecta of sunsplosions over the past few days has prompted government agencies to once again warn of...
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Brilliant 10: Sun Diver
Flying a heat-resistant probe near the sun will reveal the physics of solar plasma In July 2010, a colleague rushed into Justin Kasper's office at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in...
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Video: Ice Comet Lovejoy Survives Its Narrow Brush With the Sun
Comet Lovejoy Plunges Toward the SunNASAYesterday, comet fans were glued to their observatories as Lovejoy, a brave comet made of ice and dirt, headed on a collision course into the sun. The outcomes...
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How to Watch the Last Transit of Venus This Century
2004 Transit The 2004 transit, as seen by NASA's solar-observing TRACE satellite. NASA/TRACEObservatories the world over will be watching on Tuesday as Venus crosses the face of the sun for the last...
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Video: Venus Sweeps Across the Face of the Sun For the Last Time This Century
Transit Begins SDO image in extreme ultraviolet.NASAWatching the transit of Venus through telescopes at the local planetarium was impressive, but it was nothing compared to this view from the Solar...
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Strange, Unexplained Solar Influence Over Earth's Radioactive Material Could...
Gigantic Solar Flare On August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation can disrupt the...
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Monorail-Riding Robots Could Continually Rearrange Solar Panels to Follow the...
Monorail Rider Robots riding along monorails could arrange solar panels to follow the path of the sun, which a new startup claims would be cheaper and simpler than designing adjustable solar panels....
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Video: Researchers Simulate The Sun's Magnetic Twisters In 3-D
Spinning On The SunWedemeyer-Blohm et al. (2012) Image produced with Vapor.Some of the cyclones are 900 miles wide. Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Swedish 1-meter Solar...
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BigPic: Sun Gone Wild
Toward The 'Solar Maximum'NASA/SDOHow do we know the sun is moving into the most active part of its 11-year cycle? For starters, we can plainly see it. Every time the sun lashes out with another...
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Our Solar System Formed From The Cumulative Ashes Of Countless Stars, Not One...
Infant Stars Baby stars glow reddish-pink in this infrared image of the Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Our sun may have looked like one of these baby stars...
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In 5-Minute Journey, Flying Telescope Cracks Mystery Of Solar Atmosphere
Solar Corona This is one of the highest-resolution images ever taken of the solar corona, or outer atmosphere. It was captured by NASA's High Resolution Coronal Imager, Hi-C, in the ultraviolet...
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Happy Valentine's Day! Love, Your Sun
Heart From The SunSAO/NASA/JAXA/NAOJThe sun is just bursting with love and 14-million-degree plasma. This lovely heart-shaped protuberance is a superheated plasma curled up into the solar corona,...
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Watch Comet Pan-STARRS Race Around The Sun
Comet Pan-STARRS From L.A., March 12Wikimedia CommonsHave you seen it at sunset yet? Comet Pan-STARRS is visible in many parts of the U.S. around sunset, and it was at its peak brightness a few days...
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NASA Set To Launch New Solar Satellite IRIS [Updated]
Solar Prominence"A solar prominence rose up and swept away from the Sun (Oct. 19, 2012). Once it started breaking away, the process only took 10 hours before it was out of sight. The prominence...
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Inside The Most Expensive Science Experiment Ever
Inside ITERGraham MurdochMany machines over the past 60 years have been billed as the one that will make the big breakthrough in fusion science, only to stumble. This one could be different. Some...
View ArticleWatch Live Now: NASA's Launches The IRIS Mission
NASA's new solar explorer will launch tonight. Coverage begins at 9 p.m. Watch the live stream of the IRIS launch, courtesy of NASA TV. Coverage begins at 9 p.m. EDT, with the launch window between...
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