Tag: Solar flares
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NOAA awards Xplore $670,000 to study the options for space weather observatory
Artwork shows Xplore’s Xcraft probe observing the sun in different spectral bands. (Xplore Illustration) Seattle-based Xplore has won a $670,111 award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to look into the feasibility of sending a solar observatory to a gravitational balance point that’s a million miles from Earth. From that spot, known as the…
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Amazon Web Services enlists AI to help NASA get ahead of solar superstorms
An extreme ultraviolet image of the sun, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows an X9.3 flare erupting at lower right during a solar storm in 2017. (NASA / Goddard / SDO Photo) If the sun throws out a radiation blast of satellite-killing proportions someday, Amazon Web Services may well play a role in heading…