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[ Watch the Video: SOHO Captures CME On January 23, 2013 ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The sun showed off its strength on Wednesday with two coronal mass ejections (CME), observed by both NASA and the European Space Agency instruments. NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and both of the space agencies' Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) helped to unveil the activity during the solar maximum cycle. The CME seen at 9:55 a.m. EST on...

Karen C. Fox, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the ESA/NASA mission the Solar and Heliospheric...

GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., will host this month's Sunday Experiment on Jan. 20 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST. The Sunday Experiment is a free afternoon for children of all ages and their families to discover NASA Goddard's exciting missions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Jan. 20 Sunday Experiment will explore NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...

NASA's Magnificent Solar Images on Display in New Interactive Exhibit OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Touch the Sun," a new interactive exhibition utilizing stunning near-real-time images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, will open at Chabot Space & Science Center on January 18(th) launching a four-day weekend full of solar astronomy related activities. The central feature of the exhibition is a 90-inch LCD screen that displays near-real-time...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lockheed Martin team, awarded a contract by NASA in 2007 to design and build the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-R Series, has met the requirements of a Pre-Environmental Review (PER). The review was held in November at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto by a group of multi-disciplinary experts from NASA and NOAA, as well as...

DENVER, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the core structure for the first in a series of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s next-generation geostationary weather satellites to the company's Mississippi Space and Technology Center on NASA's Stennis Space Center where it will undergo propulsion system integration. The rigid external structure of the first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series...

[ Watch the Video: Measuring Space Tubulence ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online We all know that turbulence exists on Earth, but does it really exist in outer space? And if it does, how would you prove it? A research team from University of Iowa (UI) and the University of California, Los Angeles reports that they have directly measured space wind for the first time in a laboratory. “Turbulence is not restricted to environments here on Earth, but also arises...

NASA Image Release: Karen C. Fox, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. On Nov. 20, 2012, at 7:09 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and can reach Earth one to three days later. When Earth-directed, CMEs can affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA said that the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on Tuesday that has the potential of causing some radio blackouts. The solar flare reached a classification of M6, which falls into the weakest flares that are still able to cause some space weather effects near Earth. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Space Weather Scales, this M-class flare can cause a radio blackout categorized as R2, or...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online NASA announced the renaming of a recently launched mission to study the radiation belts to the Van Allen Probes in honor of the late James Van Allen, head of the physics department at the University of Iowa. Van Allen discovered the radiation belts encircling Earth in 1958. NASA announced the new name, previously the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), at a ceremony at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)....