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NIST ultraviolet source helps NASA spacecraft measure the origins of space weather
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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With a brilliant, finely tuned spark of ultraviolet (UV) light, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) helped NASA scientists successfully position a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne instrument to observe a "hidden" layer of the Sun where violent space weather can originate. (2010-09-02)
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See amazing new sun images from NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) team have achieved "first light" using a deformable mirror in what is called adaptive optics at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). (2010-08-25)
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Extended Period of Lower Solar Activity Linked to Changes in Sun's Conveyor Belt
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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A new analysis of the unusually long solar cycle that ended in 2008 suggests that one reason for the long cycle could be a stretching of the sun's conveyor belt, a current of plasma that circulates between the sun's equator and its poles. (2010-08-13)
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GOES-15 Solar X-Ray Imager's Miraculous First Light
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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The Solar X-Ray Imager instrument aboard the GOES-15 satellite has just provided its first light image of the sun, but it required a lot of experts to make it happen. (2010-06-15)
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Man-made aurora to help predict space weather
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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For more than 25 years, our understanding of terrestrial space weather has been partly based on incorrect assumptions about how nitrogen, the most abundant gas in our atmosphere, reacts when it collides with electrons produced by energetic ultraviolet sunlight and "solar wind." (2010-06-08)
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Shocking recipe for making killer electrons
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by ESA's Cluster mission. (2010-03-12)
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3 FASTSAT instruments pass tests
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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The outer layers of Earth's atmosphere hold many secrets yet to be uncovered and three scientific instruments will fly soon on the FASTSAT-HSV01 satellite and seek to uncover them to benefit us here on Earth. (2010-03-12)
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NASA Unveils New Space-Weather Science Tool
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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When NASA's satellite operators need accurate, real-time space-weather information, they turn to the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) of the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The CCMC's newest and most advanced space-weather science tool is the Integrated Space Weather Analysis (iSWA) system. (2010-02-24)
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UI astronomers capture first-of-kind image at distant star
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Two University of Iowa researchers have made the first direct radio image of a stellar coronal loop at a star, other than the sun, thereby providing scientists with information that may lead to a better understanding of how such phenomena as space weather affect the Earth. (2010-01-14)
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Eclipses yield first images of elusive iron line in the solar corona
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Solar physicists attempting to unlock the mysteries of the solar corona have found another piece of the puzzle by observing the sun's outer atmosphere during eclipses. (2010-01-05)
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NRL sensor observes first light
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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The Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division, launched October 18, 2009 on the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F18 (flight 18) satellite, observed first light on December 1, 2009. (2009-12-03)
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A Lightning Strike in Africa Helps Take the Pulse of the Sun
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to measure the sun's rotation or to prepare long-range forecasts of the Earth's health. (2009-11-12)
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NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science Division and Spacecraft Engineering Department offers a first of its kind technique for remote sensing of the ionosphere and thermosphere from space. (2009-11-04)
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A special issue on the International Workshop of the 2008 Solar Total Eclipse
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09/09/2010 01:48 AM
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On August 1, 2008 a total solar eclipse was visible within a narrow corridor that traversed from North America to China. (2009-11-02)
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