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What’s the Big Deal about Solar Cycles?
The Sun is Earth’s nearest star—a giant orb of hydrogen and helium about 93 million miles away. To many people, it looks…
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Top 5 Times Solar Activity Affected Earth
Over the course of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle, the star goes through a period of increased and decreased activity…
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NASA Awards NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On - Lagrange 1 Solar Wind Plasma Sensor
On behalf of NOAA, NASA has awarded the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) contract…
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NOAA NCEI Archives Data from COSMIC-2
One year ago today, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carried the constellation of six COSMIC-2 satellites into orbit. Learn how NOAA is archiving the data
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Satellite Snapshots
Largest Solar Flare Since 2017 Spotted on the Sun
On May 29, 2020, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the largest solar flare since October 2017.
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Satellite Snapshots
Intense Winter Storm Heading Toward Scandinavia
A large, broad cyclone developing over the Norwegian and Greenland Seas was seen by the NOAA-20 satellite on Jan. 1, 2020, and is…
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NOAA GOES East Satellite Captures Full Rotation of the Sun!
This short movie of the sun’s rotation from March 2021, one-million-degree solar plasma in action
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NOAA GOES-17 Satellite Reveals First SUVI Imagery
The GOES-17 Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) began taking observations of the sun on May 16, 2018.
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