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Solar Storms
Solar Storms! Moaning Myrtle! Wondering what the frick is behind the solar flares that slammed Earth earlier this week? Hank lays out how that juicy ball of plasma we call the sun causes us trouble from time to time.
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DNA and Dung Beetles
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Exploring Solar Flares: The Power and Impact of the Sun
Explore the fascinating phenomenon of solar flares and their impact on Earth. These flares can affect space weather near Earth, produce harmful radiation, and even cause disruptions to communication systems and power grids.
TMW Media
The Powerhouse Sun: Learn how the sun lives and will die
Describe solar flares and their behavior. What makes the sun throb rhythmically? Describe what will happen when the sun dies. The Powerhouse Sun, Part 3
NASA
NASA | Dynamic Earth
This was the version submitted to the 2013 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. For the original version, with a narration by Liam Neeson, go here: Watch Earth's magnetic shield protect the planet from a pelting by the solar...
NASA
NASA's MMS Captures Magnetic Reconnection in Action
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation and so it is a key...
Next Animation Studio
Cannibal solar storms are heading toward Earth
The sun’s activity will increase significantly over the next four years and will include ‘cannibal’ solar storms that risk knocking out global internet provision.
NASA
NASA | Spacecraft Track Solar Storms From Sun To Earth
NASA's STEREO spacecraft and new data processing techniques have succeeded in tracking space weather events from their origin in the Sun's ultrahot corona to impact with the Earth 96 million miles away, resolving a 40-year mystery about...
NASA
NASA | Comparing CMEs
This video features two model runs. One looks at a moderate coronal mass ejection (CME) from 2006. The second run examines the consequences of a large coronal mass ejection, such as The Carrington-Class CME of 1859. These model runs...
NASA
NASA | Many Views of a Massive CME
On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the sun's right side, zooming out into space. It soon passed one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft, which clocked the CME as traveling...
NASA
The Faint Young Star Paradox: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth
Our sun's adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it on Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Genna Duberstein on / /
NASA
Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth (short)
Our sun's adolescence was cooler than today, but stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it on Earth. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng based on source...
NASA
NASA | Highlights from SOHO's 20 Years in Space
Dr. Joe Gurman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center provides commentary on selected shots from SOHO's 20 years in space. After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is still going strong....
NASA
Welcome to the Ionosphere
Learn about the features of the ionosphere! This little-explored region exists between space and Earth. It is home to the aurora, the international space station, a variety of satellites, and radio communication waves. We know it is...
NASA
STEREO Mission Turns 10
Launched ten years ago, on Oct. 25, 2006, the twin spacecraft of NASA’s STEREO mission – short for Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory – have given us unprecedented views of the sun, including the first-ever simultaneous view of...
NASA
NASA | The Truth about 2012 - Solar Storms
Should we be concerned about solar storms in 2012? Heliophysicist Alex Young from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center sorts out truth from fiction.
NASA
NASA | Sun Sends Out X6.9 Class Solar Flare
On August 9, 2011 beginning at 3:48 AM EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to harm humans on the ground,...
NASA
NASA | Ring-shaped Prominence Erupts from Sun
An Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) on Jan. 31, 2013 was accompanied by a large prominence eruption best visible in light with a wavelength of 304 angstroms. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this footage from 10 p.m....
NASA
NASA | The Difference Between CMEs and Solar Flares
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares are both solar events, but they are not the same. This video shows the differences between the two by highlighting specific features of each.
NASA
NASA | STEREO Watches the Sun Blast Comet PanSTARRS
This movie from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) shows comet PanSTARRS as it moved around the sun from March 10-15,2013 (repeated three times). The images were captured by the Heliospheric Imager (HI), an instrument...
NASA
NASA | Massive Solar Eruption Close-up
Turn on captions for more information about what you are seeing. On June 7, 2011 the Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME). The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back...
NASA
NASA | Magnificent Eruption in Full HD
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled away from the sun at over 900 miles per...
NASA
NASA | Five Days of Flares and CMEs
This movie shows 23 of the 26 M- and X-class flares on the sun between 1800 UT Oct. 23 and 1500 UT Oct. 28, 2013, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. It also shows the coronal mass ejections -- great clouds of solar...