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The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center.
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Colossal explosions, massive eruptions and blinding flashes -- it may sound like the apocalypse, but it's just another day near the surface of the sun.
As part of its normal 11-year cycle, the Sun has experienced a significant spike in weather activity, which could potentially have effects on the Earth. The recent spate of abnormally large solar storms has cast a spotlight on these stellar events, and raised questions among the public about the effects and dangers associated with increased solar weather activity. Here's a brief rundown of everything you need to know about solar storms.What are they?A "solar storm" is an umbrella term used to describe various kinds of weather activity from the Sun. According to Dr. Joe Gurman at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , there are at least three forms of solar activity that lead to space weather that is palpable on or near the Earth: solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and storms of solar energetic particles (SEPs).A solar flare is a ...Growing up in a provincial town in Iran, Nader Modanlo was fascinated by the flickering TV images of astronauts walking on the moon.As a teenager, he came to the Uni...
NASA launched an unprecedented Earth-observing satellite from California Friday morning in a dazzling predawn blastoff that created an artificial sunrise as its rock...
Lawmakers working on next year's federal finances have taken the ax to the James Webb Space Telescope . That's right, NASA's next-generation space telescope, the suc...
Humongous waves of hot plasma roiling on the surface of the sun appear to be moving at speeds as high as 4.5 million miles per hour, a new study found. The waves are...
A huge, emerging crack has been discovered in one of Antarctica's glaciers, with a NASA plane mission providing the first-ever detailed airborne measurements of a ma...
An active region of the sun that blasted out powerful solar storms four days in a row last week likely isn't done yet, scientists say.Officially, the flare-spouting ...
The year's first total eclipse of the moon -- a rare celestial treat that lasted an unusually long time -- is now over. But those who didn't see it can catch the rep...
Growing up in a provincial town in Iran, Nader Modanlo was fascinated by the flickering TV images of astronauts walking on the moon.As a teenager, he came to the Uni...
Astronauts making the last spacewalk of NASA's space shuttle era on Tuesday retrieved a broken pump from the International Space Station and installed a fill-er-up e...
NASA is gearing up for the planned Friday (Oct. 28) launch of its newest Earth-observing satellite, a trailblazing spacecraft that will be the first to make observat...
Alongside actress Daryl Hannah, religious leaders, and dozens of eco-activists arrested Monday outside the White House protesting a planned oil pipeline from Canada ...
NASA television is reporting that a rocket that blasted off carrying an Earth-observation satellite doesn't have the velocity to reach orbit.Vandenberg Air Force Bas...
The components of DNA have now been confirmed to exist in extraterrestrial meteorites, researchers announced.A different team of scientists also discovered a number ...
Despite NASA's attempts at anthropomorphism, the Mars rovers do not talk, so Spirit was unable to utter any last words. But we did get to share its final view. Behol...
A powerful new solar observatory will spend the next five years recording images of the sun with 10 times better resolution than HD television, peering deep within t...
Two new NASA videos use the latest close-up imagery of the moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to reveal Earth's natural satellite in a whole new light.One vi...
The sun erupted in an amazing solar flare today (April 16), unleashing an intense eruption of super-heated plasma that arced high above the star's surface before bla...
Telescope images captured of the sun on Monday, March 12, show what appears to be a planet-size shadowy object tethered to the sun by a dark filament. In the image s...
A tremendous tornado whirling across the surface of the sun was captured by a NASA satellite recently -- an amazing wonder of the solar system that may be as big as ...
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