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Fireworks From a Flaring Gamma-Ray Star

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 16:12:32 - Anuradha Menon

Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years...

Solar Flare Surprise

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 - 16:12:19 - Anuradha Menon

Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Packing a punch equal to a hundred million hydrogen bombs, they obliterate...

Massive Solar Flare on a Nearby Star
Thursday, November 9th, 2006 - Iddo Genuth
The image shows a typical solar flare from our sun, captured in September 2005 in the X-ray waveband by NASA's TRACE...

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