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GPS satellites threatened more by mild solar storms than monster sun flares
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSatellites of the U.S. Global Positioning System orbit 12,550 miles above Earth. Mild solar storms...
Watch: NASA spacecraft flies through a violent solar explosion for 1st time ever — and survives...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAn illustration of the tiny Parker Solar Probe floating past the outer atmosphere of the enormous...
'Hole' in the sun and powerful X1.2 solar flare threaten space weather mayhem
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA powerful solar flare knocked out radio communications on Earth last night in what space weather...
Massive explosions from the sun pose a radioactive triple threat to the moon, Earth, and Mars
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA picture of the sun taken on May 18 shows a powerful solar flare being released.SDO/NASA An...
Our solar system map may need an update — the Kuiper belt could be way bigger
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAn illustration of the Kuiper Belt. NASA's New Horizons mission, which encountered Pluto in 2015 is...
Lab-grown solar flares reveal secrets of the sun's coronal loops
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMini solar flares created in the lab could improve our understanding of coronal loops and the...
How Solar Explosions Unleash X-Ray Auroras on Mercury
SYFY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoEvery 11 years,a...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Could Prevent an “Internet Apocalypse”
SYFY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoEvery eleven years, on average, the Sun reaches the peak of its activity cycle and throws a cosmic...
Nasa is officially ending Insight lander’s mission to detect Marsquakes as solar panels covered in...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNasa is officially expecting to end its InSightMars lander’s mission to detect Marsquakes in July as...
Upcoming solar maximum may help solve the sun's gamma-ray puzzle
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe upcoming solar maximum may help scientists solve the puzzle of why the sun's poles emitted ten...