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Earth the Protector

On Thursday, the sun let loose a massive explosion of billions of tons of solar particles in what scientists call a coronal mass ejection, or CME. You can see a video and a stunning image of the event...

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NASA sees 3 coronal mass ejections

( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) On April 20 and April 21, the sun erupted with 3 coronal mass ejections, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can...

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The sun sends 2 CMEs toward Mercury

( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) On the night of April 24 and the morning of April 25, 2013, the sun erupted with two coronal mass ejections, solar phenomena that can send billions of tons of...

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NASA sees sun emit mid-level flare

(Phys.org) —The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 1:32 pm EDT on May 3, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's...

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Sunspot Blasting Out Major Solar Flares Will Face Earth Soon | Zen …

The super-active sunspot responsible for unleashing the three most powerful solar flares of 2013 within a 24-hour stretch this week is slowly rotating towardEarth and will likely be facing our planet...

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Satellite sees Tropical Storm Alvin's life end quickly – Science News

NASA's GOES Project is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Alvin became a named tropical storm on May 15 at 5 p.m. EDT and weakened into a trough (elongated area) of low...

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NASA's SDO observes mid-level solar flare

( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on the morning of May 22, 2013. The flare peaked at 9:38 a.m. EDT and was classified as an M7. M-class flares are the...

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NASA animation sees Post-Tropical Storm Andrea speed away

Post-Tropical cyclone Andrea's remnants sped into the North Atlantic Ocean over the weekend of June 8 and 9. NOAA's GOES-14 satellite data was used to create an animation of imagery that showed...

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Sun emits a solstice CME | Science Codex

On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one...

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Ideas, Inventions And Innovations: Sun Emits Solstice CME

On June 20, 2013, at 11:24 p.m., the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one...

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Sun erupts with a CME toward Earth and Mercury – Phys

On July 9, 2013, at 11:09 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth...

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2013's solar maximum could be weakest since the dawn of the …– io9

Above: An epic solar flare from August 2012. “It's the smallest maximum we've seen in the Space Age,” said David Hathaway of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center yesterday via teleconference. Earlier...

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Coronal mass ejection headed toward Mercury and Venus | Science …

On July 1, 2013, at 6:09 p.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can affect electronic...

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Coronal mass ejection to pass Earth, Messenger and Juno

On July 16, 2013, at 12:09 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth...

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Giant 'Hole' Spied in Sun

The European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, captured this image of a gigantic coronal hole hovering over the sun’s north pole on July 18, 2013, at 9:06 a.m. EDT. Visit...

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Infrared NASA image revealed fading Gil's warming cloud tops

As cloud tops fall, their temperature rises, and infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite saw that happening as Tropical Storm Gil weakened. View the original here:   Infrared NASA image revealed...

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NASA saw Henriette fading and two struggling lows behind

Once a hurricane, Henriette weakened to a depression in the Central Pacific Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 11 and dissipated by Aug. 12 as two other low pressure areas continued to struggle. NASA's TRMM...

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NASA identifies heavy rainfall in South China Sea's Typhoon Utor

As Typhoon Utor was exiting the northwestern Philippines, NASA's TRMM satellite passed overhead and detected some heavy rainfall in Utor's thunderstorm “feeder-bands” as it re-strengthened over the...

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Erin weakens to a tropical depression over eastern Atlantic

( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) Tropical Storm Erin ran into cooler waters and dry, stable air over the Eastern Atlantic that sapped its strength and weakening the storm to depression status....

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NASA image: Tropical Storm Pewa passing Wake Island

Satellite imagery showed that Tropical Storm Pewa has passed Wake Island on Aug. 21. GOES-West satellite imagery showed Pewa moving farther into the northwestern Pacific. See original -  NASA image:...

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