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Sunspot 1123 Hurls Filament toward Earth
11.12.10 - Active sunspot 1123 erupted during early on Nov. 12, producing a C4-class solar flare and hurling a filament of material in the general direction of Earth.
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Sunspot 1121 Unleashes X-ray Flare
11.08.10 - On Saturday, Active Region 1112 unleashes an M class solar flare.
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The International Space Weather Initiative
11.17.10 - Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance: storms from the sun.
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Two NASA Spacecraft Begin New Exploration Assignments
10.27.10 - Two NASA spacecraft have been assigned a new mission after successfully completing their original science objectives earlier this year.
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Sun's Northern Hemisphere Bristling with Solar Flares
10.26.10 - With a large active region currently in the northern hemisphere of the Sun, there has been a flurry of small solar flares over the past day.
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ARTEMIS Spacecraft Believed Struck by Object
10.22.10 - Flight Dynamics data from THEMIS-B (one of the two ARTEMIS spacecraft) indicated that one of the electric field instrument spherical tip masses may have been struck by a meteoroid at 0605 UT on October 14.
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Sunspot 1112 Crackling with Solar Flares
10.18.10 - Sunspot 1112 was very active this past weekend, sending out several solar flares as a vast filament traversed the Sun's southern hemisphere.
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NASA Invites Students to Study Sun During Solar Week
10.15.10 - Solar Week provides a weeklong series of web-based educational activities for classrooms about our magnetic variable star, the sun, and its interactions with Earth and the solar system.
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C3-class Solar Flare Erupts
09.09.10 - Just as sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth on Sept. 8, the active region erupted, producing a C3-class solar flare (peak @ 2330 UT) and a fantastic prominence.
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Labor Day Weekend Solar CME
09.07.10 - NASA's SDO and SOHO spacecraft catches the Sun celebrating Labor Day Weekend with a coronal mass ejection on September 4.
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Artemis Spacecraft First to Enter New Type of Orbit
08.25.10 - NASA's ARTEMIS-P1 has become the first spacecraft successfully placed into an Earth-Moon libration orbit.
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First Solar Radiation Storm of Solar Cycle 24
08.16.10 - Another CME that may graze Earth.
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NASA/KASI Coordination in Heliophysics Science
08.12.10 - Cooperation between scientists from Korea and the U.S. should advance and broaden heliophysics science and space weather research.
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August 7th CME to Produce Aurora on Earth
08.10.10 - The coronal mass ejection (CME) generated by the August 7th solar flare will produce aurora.
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M-Class Solar Flare Erupts
08.09.10 - An M-class flare erupted in active sunspot region 1093, peaking at 1824 UTC on August 7, 2010.