Coronal Mass Ejection

WATCH: Northern Lights Dazzle Minnesota Sky

Posted 04.25.2012

The aurora borealis put on a dazzling show in more than a dozen states Monday night, according to SpaceWeather.com. A particularly spectacular disp...

WATCH: Vast Solar Tornado Big Enough To Swallow Several Earths

Posted 03.29.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 03/29/2012 09:58 AM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA spacecraft has captured video of a massive solar "tornado" fi...

LISTEN: Solar Storm 'Sounds' Other-Worldly In New Video

Posted 03.21.2012

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 03/20/2012 02:03 PM EDT on SPACE.com A new video captures the frenzied sounds of a sun storm, based on data recorde...

WATCH: Solar Flare Looks Like UFO Refueling From Sun

Posted 03.14.2012

By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 03/13/2012 05:28 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries Telescope images captured of the sun on Monday (March 12) show ...

Huge Solar Flare May Mean Sun Is 'Waking Up'

Posted 03.06.2012

By: Denise Chow Published: 03/06/2012 07:28 AM EST on SPACE.com An active region on the sun that unleashed a powerful solar flare Sunday (March ...

Solar Storm Study Spotlights Risk Of Catastrophe

Posted 03.01.2012

An aurora borealis may be beautiful, but can there be too much of a good thing? A new study published in the journal Space Weather analyzed the freque...

400 Chernobyls

Matthew Stein | Posted 01.06.2012

Matthew Stein

There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more either under construction or in the planning stages. Imagine what havoc it would wreak if we were to suddenly experience not just one or two nuclear meltdowns, but 400.

Lee Speigel

WATCH: NASA Spacecraft Photographs Mysterious Glowing Object Near Mercury

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Speigel | Posted 12.08.2011

A NASA spacecraft has captured the image of a huge "cloaked" alien ship near the planet Mercury. Unless, of course, it didn't. On Dec. 1, NASA's He...

WATCH: Sun Emits Powerful Blast

Posted 01.07.2012

The sun was on fire last week. Sorry, we couldn't resist. But when it came to solar activity, the big shining star didn't let us down. On Thurs...

PHOTOS: Rare Northern Lights Display Dazzles In Over 20 States

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.25.2011

The aurora borealis, a geomagnetic phenomenon that's also known as the northern lights, is something we usually think of as occurring in, well, the no...

WATCH: HUGE Explosion Occurs Moments After Comet Hits Sun

Posted 12.07.2011

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a satellite monitoring the sun, caught an amazing scene over the weekend: A comet slammed into the sun,...

WATCH: Time-Lapse Shows Solar Eruption Engulfs View Of Venus

Posted 10.18.2011

Too bright! This time-lapse footage captured Tuesday by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory shows a "coronal mass ejection" as it sparks between...

DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

DK Matai

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