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Sun unleashes major solar flare

04/25/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
(Space.com) The sun erupted with a massive solar flare late Thursday, triggering a temporary communications blackout on some parts of Earth. The powerful flare peaked at 8:27 p.m. EDT Thursday (0027 April 25 GMT), and ranked as an X1.3-class solar…

Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole

11/21/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The IceCube Laboratory sits on the surface of the ice on top of the detector, collecting data from sensors under the ice. All 5,160 sensors that make up the in-ice array are connected to the lab via cable. (Sven Lidstrom,…

Sun celebrates July Fourth, unleashes solar fireworks

07/04/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The sun unleashed an M1.5-class solar flare (lower left) on July 3, 2013, a solar fireworks to the traditional Fourth of July holiday in the United States. (NASA/SDO) The sun fired off an intense solar flare Wednesday, giving NASA scientists…

Colossal solar flare, strongest of 2013, shoots from sun

05/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a colossal X1.7-class solar flare erupting from the sun at 10:17 p.m. EDT on May 12, 2013 (Mother’s Day). It is the strongest solar flare of 2013 so far. (NASA/SDO) The sun…

Sun unleashes biggest solar flare of the year yet

04/12/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a powerful M6.5 class flare, the strongest of 2013 at the time, at 3:16 EDT on April 11, 2013. This image shows a combination of light in wavelengths of 131 and 171…