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Sun Fires Solar Storm Directly at Earth
The sun unleashed a powerful storm early Tuesday morning, sending an enormous cloud of superheated particles rocketing toward Earth. The solar eruption, known as a (CME), occurred at 4:24 a.m. EDT (0824 GMT) Tuesday and blasted billions of tons of solar particles toward Earth at a mind-boggling speed of 2 million mph (3.3 million km/h). "Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 570...
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Space Station Cosmonauts Encounter Glitch During Spacewalk
In this image from video made available by NASA, cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, left, and Aleksandr Misurkin wave a Russian flag near the end of their spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/NASA) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A pair of spacewalking cosmonauts installed a new telescope mount on the International Space Station on Thursday despite a flaw in the device. Russians Fyodor Yurchikhin and Aleksandr Misurkin - making their second spacewalk in under a week...
Earth Waves at Saturn's Cassini Spacecraft; NASA Releases Photo Collage
It's your chance to see yourself from space. A new collage called was released by NASA this week. The image commemorates July's "Wave at Saturn" event, when the Cassini spacecraft turned its attention toward Earth and snapped a photo. SPACE.com reports more than 40,000 people took a moment to that day. People around the world that day, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at JPL, says the event marked the...
Did Ancient Earth-Chilling Meteor Crash Near Canada?
The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass with the mullite and corundum crystal structure shown here. (Mukul Sharma) A meteor or comet impact near Quebec heaved a rain of hot melted rock along North America's Atlantic Coast about 12,900 years ago, a new study claims. Scientists have traced the geochemical signature of the BB-sized spherules that rained down back to their source, the 1.5-billion-year-old Quebecia terrane in northeastern Canada near the...
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