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Solar tornadoes: New findings reveal hidden twists in solar storms that threaten Earth
A new University of Michigan study offers one of the most detailed pictures so far of how violent sun storms spread across ...
could help find the tornado-like features in time to protect equipment on Earth and in orbit. The study results come from ...
Researchers discover hidden solar tornadoes that can disrupt Earth's systems - revealing why current space weather warnings ...
Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate ...
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Solar sail probe could warn of ‘space tornadoes’ 40% faster, scientists say
These probes would be stationed at Lagrange Point 1 (L1), a stable orbital location between the Earth and the sun. The scientists claim that L1’s proximity to the sun would enable a 40 percent speed ...
Four proposed sungazing spacecraft, working together, could help speed up space weather warnings by 40%, a new study suggests ...
For the study, the researchers modeled the influence of “flux ropes,” which are relatively smaller, tornado-like spirals of ...
In an amazing video captured by NASA telescopes, the Sun ejected a plume of plasma so big, it could wipe out our civilization many times over (if Earth was that close, that is). The bright solar ...
The sun unleashed two huge flares early Wednesday, one day after a NASA observatory captured a dramatic photo of a separate solar flare. The back-to-back eruptions included the strongest of the year ...
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A New Probe Could Spot Space Tornadoes 40% Sooner
A new study published in The Astrophysical Journalis sounding the alarm about swirling solar wind structures that may pose an ...
Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun's corona in astonishing clarity. The sun's outer atmosphere — the corona — ...
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