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A new space instrument captures its first solar eruption
For new Sun-watching spacecraft, the first solar eruption is always special.
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Solar wind from the center of the Earth
High-precision noble gas analyses indicate that solar wind particles from our primordial Sun were encased in the Earth's core over 4.5 billion years ago.
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Scientists invent a method for predicting solar radio flux for two years ahead
Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their colleagues from the University of Graz and the Kanzelhohe Observatory…
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Space weather is difficult to predict – with only an hour to prevent disasters on Earth
Recent developments at the forefront of astronomy allow us to observe that planets orbiting other stars have weather.
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Renewable energy powers ahead in 2020: report
Renewable energy grew at its fastest rate in two decades, driven primarily by gains in China and wind power, the International Energy Agency said in a report Tuesday.
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Space weather and solar blobs
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have received three awards from the National Aeronautics…
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Researchers unveil roadmap to expand NY solar energy, meet green goals
Solar-power developers need to explore using lower-quality agricultural land for solar energy, incentivize dual-use (combined agriculture and solar) options…
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Physicists describe new type of aurora
For millennia, humans in the high latitudes have been enthralled by auroras - the northern and southern lights.
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‘Molecular glue’ makes perovskite solar cells dramatically more reliable over time
A research team from Brown University has made a major step toward improving the long-term reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy technology.
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Closing in on state-of-the-art semiconductor solar cells
A synthetic approach that improves absorber layers in perovskite solar cells could help them achieve their full potential and draw closer to the performance of leading gallium arsenide devices.
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Confirmation of an auroral phenomenon discovered by Finns
A new auroral phenomenon discovered by Finnish researchers a year ago is probably caused by areas of increased oxygen atom density occurring in an atmospheric wave channel.
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Solar development: super bloom or super bust for desert species?
Throughout the history of the West, human actions have often rushed the desert - and their actions backfired.
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Northrop Grumman Solar Arrays to Power Airbus OneSat Spacecraft
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space for the design, development and production of 24 ship sets of solar arrays to support the OneSat satellite product line.
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‘Twisting’ atomic materials may convert light into electricity
A pair of physicists at the University of California, Riverside, are aiming to convert light falling on atomically thin semiconductor materials into electricity, having received more than $582,000 in funding from the U.S.
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Latest Observations by MUSER Help Clarify Solar Eruptions
Prof. YAN Yihua and his research team from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) recently released detailed results…
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Combining solar panels and lamb grazing increases land productivity, study finds
Land productivity could be greatly increased by combining sheep grazing and solar energy production on the same land, according to new research by Oregon State University scientists.