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What's Up with Prominent Sun?
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| Topic: Sun |
03/18/04 |
| Last November solar observers witnessed the largest solar flare ever observed. This month, the orbiting solar observatory snapped a spectacular image of the Sun ejecting an eruptive prominence, a relatively cooler gas ejection that stretched more than fifty Earth diameters and moved at 45,000 miles per hour. |
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Our Typical Dwarf Star
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| Topic: Sun |
07/22/03 |
| A great mystery about our own star is why its atmosphere is hotter than its surface. By studying microflares, solar physicists believe some of this energy is coming from the smaller but more frequent explosions on our typical dwarf star. |
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Goldstone, We Had a Problem
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| Topic: Sun |
07/06/03 |
| Scientists using the main solar observatory, SOHO, have been troubleshooting a locked antenna for weeks. If not solved, about a third of the year, the prediction of solar storms would be pushed back to a pre-1980's situation. |
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Neat! Comet Crossing
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| Topic: Sun |
02/21/03 |
| Using tracking from automated telescopes, solar physicists captured the Sun's fiery greeting to a close-passing comet called NEAT. Initially thought to be a newly formed comet, NEAT turns out to have last visited the inner solar system 37,000 years ago. |
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Solar Spectacular
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| Topic: Sun |
10/15/02 |
| Prominent solar activity noted from southern pole of sun. |
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