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70-year-old conundrum of the hot solar corona may be solved

From Columbia University Astronomers find clues to decades-long coronal heating mystery Drs. Michael Hahn and Daniel Wolf Savin, research scientists at Columbia University’s Astrophysics Laboratory in...

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Spectacular video: Comet ISON imaged from a Langrange point in space

NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, is monitoring Comet ISON as it approaches the sun. NASA’s twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft are parked in...

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Study predicts the sun is headed for a Dalton-like solar minimum around 2050

Method uses the Ap geomagnetic index, which has been in a slump since October 2005: The Hockey Schtick tips us to a paper published today in Advances in Space Research predicts that if the current lull...

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Leif Svalgaard at AGU on the Current Solar Cycle: ‘None of us alive have ever...

WUWT’s resident solar expert Dr. Leif Svalgaard (and others) says  ‘None of us alive have ever seen such a weak cycle’  and the panel he was on talk about the current state of our solar cycle at the...

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New paper suggests the sun's magnetic fields defines climate over the long term

Story submitted by Cornelis de Jager (past president ICSU;past pres. COSPAR) In a recent publication entitled Terrestrial ground temperature variation in relation to solar magnetic variability,...

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NASA’s SDO Sees New Kind of Magnetic Explosion on Sun

from NASA Dec. 17, 2019 NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the…

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’Pale Blue Dot’ Revisited

From NASA Feb. 12, 2020 Full image and caption More About the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ 10 things you might not know about the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image Print your very…

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The role of the Sun in the spread of viral respiratory diseases

Why do most viral epidemics spread cyclically in autumn and winter in the globe's temperate regions? According to an interdisciplinary team of researchers of the Italian National Institute for...

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Exploring the Solar Wind With A New View of Small Sun Structures

Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research...

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No Mention Of CO2: New Study Shows African Climate Variability Strongly...

A new study analyzes patterns of natural rainfall variability and can provide crucial assistance to African countries in seasonal rainfall forecasting for agriculture and protection against droughts...

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In First, Scientists Trace Fastest Solar Particles to Their Roots on the Sun

“Normally, you have to infer this kind of thing – you’d say, ‘look we saw an SEP and a solar flare, and the SEP probably came from the solar flare,’” said Wilson, who wasn’t involved in the study. “But...

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A New Space Instrument Captures Its First Solar Eruption

Solar Orbiter has already taken the closest picture of the Sun to date, and it will only get closer. Solar Orbiter’s official mission begins in November, when SoloHI and the rest of the remote-sensing...

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NASA Rocket, Satellite Tag-Team to View the Giant Electric Current in the Sky

Some 50 miles up, where Earth’s atmosphere blends into space, the air itself hums with an electric current. Scientists call it the atmospheric dynamo, an Earth-sized electric generator. It’s taken...

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Small Satellite, Big Questions: CuPID CubeSat Will Get New Perspective on...

The proliferation of small, experimental satellite missions has created more opportunities for students to get involved in hands-on engineering projects.

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How the Sun Controls Arctic Ice and Temperatures part 3

Part 3 on controls on Arctic sea ice. Although sunspot cycles do not add enough energy to explain the Arctic's warming, the sun and sunspot cycles do explain redistribution of heat from the Tropics to...

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Solar energy explains fast yearly retreat of Antarctica’s sea ice

Unlike other aspects of its behavior, Antarctic sea ice is just following simple rules of physics.

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The Solar Storm That Nearly Sparked A Nuclear Confrontation

On May 23rd, 1967, a solar storm took place that was so powerful, it jammed radar and radio communications in polar regions and the US Air Force actually began to prepare aircraft for war thinking the...

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“Looking at the Sun”– Climate Discussion Nexus interviews CERES co-team...

CDN have now published their 20 minute "explainer" video including extracts from this interview and discussion of some of CERES' recent scientific research.

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“The Weaponization of Science: Politics, Vilification, and the Climate...

On April 11, 2022, CERES team-leader, Dr. Willie Soon’s gave a presentation in Washington D.C., “The Weaponization of Science: Politics, Vilification, and the Climate Debate”.

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Willie Soon on the Tom Nelson Podcast

This CO2 stuff is...pure delusion. You cannot find any signature of that.

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