Saturday, February 21st, 2009 | Post a comment

This NASA image shows an X-ray afterglow in orange and yellow in this view that merges images from Swift’s UltraViolet/Optical and X-ray telescopes. The US space agency’s Fermi telescope has detected a massive explosion in space which scientists say is the biggest gamma-ray burst ever detected, a report published Thursday in Science Express said. (AFP/NASA)
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009 | 6 comments

Damages could be trillions from solar ‘perfect storm’
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 | 6 comments

NASA’s five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth’s magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to “load up” the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | Post a comment

Ultraviolet image of the sun. The intensity of the sun’s million-mile-per-hour solar wind has dropped to its lowest levels since accurate records began half a century ago, scientists say.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008 | Post a comment
Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore’s mythical “consensus.” Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007 | 8 comments
Aug. 28, 2007, had very revealing headlines:
Blood-Red Moon Rises over North America, Olmert Offers Temple Mount Sovereignty to the Palestinians, Olmert and Abbas Meet on Israel’s Land and Jerusalem, Bush Says Iran’s Actions Could Lead to a Shadow of a Nuclear Holocaust, and Bush Arrives in New Orleans for his 15th Post-Katrina Visit
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | 6 comments
The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change – and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling

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Friday, March 23rd, 2007 | One comment
Hinode, the newest solar observatory on the space scene, has obtained never-before-seen images showing that the sun’s magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known.

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Thursday, January 4th, 2007 | One comment
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) – Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in eastern New Jersey.
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006 | Post a comment
Space weather forecasters revised their predictions for storminess after a major flare erupted on the Sun overnight threatening damage to communication systems and power grids while offering up the wonder of Northern Lights”
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