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Super Solar Flares
May 17, 2012 | Nature.com

Solar flares from our Sun erupt with enormous power. However, solar flares on other stars can be 10 million times more powerful.


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Light from a Super Earth
May 10, 2012 | NASA
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Enormous Sunspot AR 1476
May 9, 2012 | MSNBC.com
A massive sunspot cluster over 60,000 miles across has been identified on the sun's surface....

Connecting Solar Flares to Earth Events
March 2, 2012 | NOAA
"Englishman Richard Carrington is credited with the key observation in 1859 that connected solar flares...

Short Fuses on Super-Eruptions
May 31, 2012 | Vanderbilt University
Enormous volcanic eruptions with potential to end civilizations may have surprisingly short fuses, researchers have...

Solar Flares
February 5, 2012 | Earth Observatory
Following one of the longest and weakest periods of activity in many cycles, the Sun...

A Growing Abundance of “Solar Systems”
January 13, 2013 | Caltech
At least 200 billion stars fill the Milky Way, our galaxy. How many planets might...

Gulfport to Drill Super Well Pads in Ohio’s Utica Shale
April 2, 2012 | Platts.com
Gulfport Energy plans to produce oil from the Utica Shale in Ohio from "super" well...

Potential Impacts of Tuesday’s Solar Storm
March 7, 2012 | NOAA Space Weather Alerts
According to NOAA's Space Weather Alerts, the potential impacts of Tuesday's solar storm, the impact...


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