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May 15, 2013 01:32 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
The sun has erupted with another X-class solar flare, adding a fourth huge solar explosion to the 48-hour tally. Continue reading →
May 14, 2013 02:54 AM ET // Ian O'Neill
The sun didn't unleash one record-setting solar flare of 2013, it unleashed a hat-trick of awesome eruptions... all within 24 hours! Continue reading →
May 13, 2013 01:27 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
In the early hours of this morning, the sun exploded to life with an X1.7 flare -- the biggest of the year, so far. Continue reading →
Apr 11, 2013 03:00 PM ET // Ian O'Neill
The sun has unleashed the biggest solar flare of the year, quickly followed by an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME). ->
Mar 5, 2013 02:09 PM ET // Markus Hammonds
NASA and L'Garde are set to launch the largest solar sail ever constructed in 2014. ->
Feb 20, 2013 04:09 PM ET // Jason Major
When it's setting up a powerful shockwave in space made up of high-speed particles accelerated to nearly the speed of light, that's when! ->
Dec 29, 2010 05:16 AM ET // Ian O'Neill
The Galaxy 15 satellite that had its "brains fried" by a solar flare nine months ago is communicating with Earth again. Has this reanimated satellite corpse been resurrected?
Aug 25, 2010 03:33 PM ET // Irene Klotz
The sun gets a close up of one of its beautiful blemishes by brand new adaptive optics kit attached to the Big Bear Solar Observatory.
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