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  A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite has smashed the previous distance record for th
New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record
A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite has smashed the previous distance record for the most powerful explosions in the Universe. Researchers are calling it 'an incredible find' and a 'true blast from the past.'
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  For the first time, NASA spacecraft have traced the 3D shape of solar storms known as coronal mass e
The Surprising Shape of Solar Storms
For the first time, NASA spacecraft have traced the 3D shape of solar storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). It turns out the most ferocious storms resemble something from a French bakery.
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  How low can it go? The Sun is plunging into the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.
Deep Solar Minimum
How low can it go? The Sun is plunging into the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century.
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  NASA and U.S. Air Force test pilots have just dropped a 50,000-pound "dummy" rocket booster on the A
Ares Super-chute
NASA and U.S. Air Force test pilots have just dropped a 50,000-pound "dummy" rocket booster on the Arizona desert--and stopped it before it crashed. It's all part of NASA's plan to return to the Moon.
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  NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a record-setting gamma-ray burst with the greate
Extreme Gamma-ray Burst
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a record-setting gamma-ray burst with the greatest total energy and fastest motions ever seen.
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  A gamma-ray flare star 30,000 light years from Earth is putting on a remarkable show for astronomers
Gamma-ray Flare Star
NASA spacecraft are monitoring blasts of gamma-ray energy from a star 30,000 light years away. Some of the flares have packed more total energy than the sun puts out in 20 years.
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  Severe Space Weather--Social and Economic Impacts
A new NASA-funded study details what might happen to our modern, high-tech society in the event of a 'super solar flare' followed by an extreme geomagnetic storm. Some of the conclusions might surprise you.
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  Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field Discovered
NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. The size of the opening and the strange way it forms could overturn long-held ideas of space physics.
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  Solar Flare Surprise
Solar flares are supposed to obliterate everything in their vicinity, yet one of the most powerful flares of the past 30 years has done just the opposite, emitting a beam of pure and unbroken hydrogen atoms. Researchers think this strange event could yield vital clues to the inner workings of solar flares.
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