<p></p> <p>Scientists on NASA’s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful auroras – only not in ways the
<p>Big sunspot AR1429 has unleashed another major flare–an X5-class eruption on March 7th at 00:28 UT. </p> <p style="text-align:center" class="small"> </p><p>As a result of the blast, a radiation storm is
<p>Glowing green and red, shimmering hypnotically across the night sky, the aurora borealis is a wonder to behold. Longtime sky watchers say it is the greatest show on Earth.</p> <p>It
<p>Yesterday morning (June 7th) around 06:41 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and a
<p>The solar eruption of August 7th might affect Earth after all. Newly-arriving data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) show a CME heading our way with a
<p>During the early hours of August 1st, NASA’s <a href="http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/" target="_blanK">Solar Dynamics Observatory</a> recorded a complex global disturbance on the Earth-facing side of the sun.</p> <p>Most of the sun’s northern hemisphere
<p class="small" align="center"></p> <p><b>July 18, 2010:</b> NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet’s atmosphere. High above Earth’s surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of
<p>A magnetic filament on the sun erupted yesterday (May 24th), and the blast hurled a coronal mass ejection in the general direction of Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should be
<p>A high-speed solar wind stream hit Earth’s magnetic field last night (May 2-3), sparking a geomagnetic storm that lasted more than 15 hours. In Scandinavia, the Northern Lights were so
<p>The sudden emergence of big sunspot 1045 over the weekend has caused a sharp upsurge in solar activity.</p> <p>The active region has produced three M-class and almost a dozen C-class solar