Astronomy & Space

CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS

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For more information about CME's, please check out the following links:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07jun_1m.htm?list

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/index_08jun00.html

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Coronal mass ejection
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/storm1/cme.html
Coronal Mass Ejections The above sequence of images were taken from an orbiting satellite in August 1980. An instrument called a coronograph produces an artificial eclipse of the bright disk of the Sun so that the camera can take a photograph of...

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Sun-Earth Connection
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/cme.htm
Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Flares, and the Sun-Earth Connection The above image shows two examples of a coronal mass ejection (CME). The black disk blocks out the bright light from the Sun, creating an artificial eclipse so that the dim light...

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Space Weather Bureau
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Daily monitoring of solar flares, geomagnetic storms, Earth's aurora, and all forms of space weather.

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Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center -- Solar Activity - Coronal Mass Ejections
http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/cme.html
Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center at NASA/GSFC -- Coronal Mass Ejections

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Solar Flare may spark Earthly aurora this weekend
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast7nov97_1.htm
NASA Web site featuring headlines on recent astronomy research at Marshall Space Flight Center. Read about developments in auroras, the sun, and deep space. New headlines appear every few days.

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Solar storm triggers auroral display
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast28aug98_1.htm
A giant solar mass ejection is likely to spark geomagnetic activity and spectacular aurora over the next few days.

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Follow The Sun
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/~egardner/sun/follow.html
What's Happening on the Sun? Latest Images/Movies of the Sun from the SOHO Satellite Can you see a flare or coronal mass ejection? X Rays from the Sun, measured by NOAA Space Environment Center Has the Sun exploded with any flares? Latest Image of..

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APOD: 2000 March 9 - Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000309.html
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2000 March 9 Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection.

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Aurora
http://www.weatherwise.org/99mj.byrnes.html
From Weatherwise magazine, May/June 1999 The Awesome Aurora by Gregory J. Byrne and Susan K. Runco Solar Storms May Soon Bring the Aurora to a Sky Near You The beautiful, ghostly forms of the aurora have fascinated and mystified humans for...

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"Gentle" puffs of solar wind stir the Northern Lights
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWHOME/headlines/ast01jun99_1.htm
NASA scientists use data from 3 spacecraft to figure out what can stir up Earth's aurora.

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Thursday's Classroom -- lesson plans and educational activities from NASA
http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/index_06jan00.html
NASA news and research related to the Hubble Constant and cosmology

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The Magnetosphere
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/lectures/magnetosphere.html
The Magnetosphere Dr. James L. Green Table of Contents Introduction The Shape of the Magnetosphere Regions of the Magnetosphere Van Allen Radiation Belts Waves in the Magnetosphere The Dynamic Magnetosphere Terrestrial Effects of Magnetic Storms...

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SOHO: Coronal Mass Ejection
http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/~kucera/LPI/portfolio/SnowCME.html
For a higher resolution TIF version of one of these images, click here A large solar flare and coronal mass ejection shoot tons of particles into space This sequence of composite images taken by two of SOHO's coronograph instruments clearly shows...

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What is Space Weather?
http://www.windows.umich.edu/spaceweather/sun_earth5.html
(5) Coronal Mass Ejections (Images within this animation are from the coronograph aboard the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) and were provided courtesy of Arthur J. Hundhausen of HAO and NASA) What does the sun's outer atmosphere look like right now...

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Coronal Mass Ejections
http://141.212.197.60/cgi-bin/tour_def/sun/cmes.html
Coronal Mass Ejections "Without warning, the relatively calm solar atmosphere can be torn asunder by sudden outbursts of a scale unknown on Earth. Catastrophic events of incredible energy..stretch up to halfway across the visible solar surface..

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Rapid Solar Activity Imaged by SOHO Craft
http://www.space.com/science/solarsystem/solar_soho_991019.html
Dramatic back-to-back eruptions on the sun were recorded last week by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. SOHO carries an instrument that views the solar corona while blocking light from the sun's center.

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THE SOHO GALLERY
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery
The SOHO Gallery SOLAR CORONA HELIOSEISMOLOGY PARTICLE EXPERIMENTS SPACECRAFT CDS EIT LASCO SUMER UVCS GOLF MDI VIRGO CELIAS COSTEP ERNE SWAN SOHO NEW EXHIBITS SOHO Slide Presentation (PDF,15.8M) Reduced Set (PDF, 9.4M) or, in parts: A, B, C-About..

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Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer Eject Movies
http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/cds/home/cds/animations/eject/eject_s16947.html
Central Laboratory of the Research Councils Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Space Science Department SOHO Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer Study Number s16947 Active region AR 8639 is observed on the North West limb of the Sun The movie follows a...

Movies: Solar Wind Squeezes
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/news/9812/solarmovies.html
ISTP December 1998 >Movies: Solar Wind Squeezes.. Movies Coronal Mass Ejection Directed at Earth On September 22, 1998, the Sun ejected a mass of hot, ionized gas (plasma) toward Earth. This magnetic cloud of plasma (a coronal mass ejection...