The blustery void: space weather forecasting comes of age

Article Abstract:

The Space Environment Center in Boulder, CO, is using a number of space probes to help it make the most accurate forecasts of space weather to date. These forecasts are very important to companies using artificial satellites, which can be very vulnerable to space weather shifts.

Forecasts and trends, Space environment, Solar activity

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A second glance: a dim class of galaxies offers unexpected fascination

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Low surface-brightness galaxies had been ignored until researchers recently discovered that the galaxies, thought to be merely small, were actually twice the diameter of the Milky Way and 10 times more distant that originally thought.

Research, Galaxies, Galactic evolution, Spiral galaxies

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Asteroid hunters: there's a rock out there with our name on it. Ho hum

Article Abstract:

Many near-earth asteroids that are greater than 50 meters in diameter may collide with the earth over a period of several million years. The twin asteroid Toutatis, about four kilometers in diameter, passes close to the earth's orbit.

Asteroids, Orbits (Astrophysics)

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