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WARNING: This is a non-conventional view of our solar system. If you can't handle that, please try to remain calm. It is OK for people to have different view... 
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Much of the radiation energy that makes it through is reflected back into space by clouds, ice and snow and the energy that remains helps to drive the Earth system, powering a remarkable planetary engine – the climate. It becomes the energy that feeds swirling wind and ocean currents as cold air and surface waters move toward the equator and warm air and water moves toward the poles – all in an attempt to equalize temperatures around the world.
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Scaled to the size of a beach ball, say scientists, the sun's equatorial bulge would be less than the width of a human hair...
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Plants have the uncanny ability to send their roots down and their shoots up, even if the seedlings are rotated. The plants are sensing gravity. But how?
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From NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. This video takes images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and applies additional processing to enhance the structures that are visible. The result is a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun.
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This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun.
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BEST VIEWED IN HD AND FULLSCREEN (with scaling off) Midnight Sun: A natural phenomenon occurring in the summer months north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun never fully sets and remains visible 24 hours a day.
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The sun isn't an only child. When it was born 4.6 million years ago, it came to life alongside a whole brood of siblings. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory had a fantastic birds eye view of a solar eruption and ensuing coronal mass ejection which began on February 9th, 2012. A filament was released from the Sun's surface in a violent whipping motion.
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Blog post with LOTS more info: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/01/28/the-suns-still-blasting-out-flares-big-ones/ On January 27, 2012, th...
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory has completed the third year of its mission to provide scientists not only with stunningly detailed images of our sun, but a wealth of data that will help further our understanding of the sun-Earth system.
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Solar flares are classified by letters B, C, M and X. Similar to the earthquake scale, the power unleashed is measured exponentially. Find out what it can da...
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Researchers animated this simulation of a magnetic tornado in the solar atmosphere in order to study how such twisters evolve over time and determine how complex magnetic fields manipulate the Suns ionized gas/plasma.
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The sunspot group dubbed Active Region 1476 is one of the largest since the 2003 "Halloween Storm." This video shows the path and development of this sunspot group from May 5 through May 11, 2012. Articles about SUN: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=sun
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A beautiful prominence eruption producing a coronal mass ejection (CME) shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on April 16, 2012. Such eruptions are often associated with solar flares, and in this case an M1 class (medium-sized) flare occurred at the same time, peaking at 1:45 PM EDT. The CME was not aimed toward Earth. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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On April 7th 2012, a coronal mass ejection was lofted towards Mercury and set to slam into its ultra-thin atmosphere on April 9th.
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This sonification of the recent solar storm activity turns data from two spacecraft into sound. It uses measurements from the NASA SOHO spacecraft and the University of Michigan's Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer (FIPS) on NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury. The creator is Robert Alexander, a design science doctoral student at the University of Michigan and NASA fellow.
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If the sun is anything, it is reassuring. It rises, sets, and rises again, allowing us to grow crops, get tan, and power homes, just to name a few of humanity's most important life-sustaining functions.
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