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Pick of the Week
High-energy "Snowstorm" (May 24, 2013)
An M5 flare associated with a coronal mass ejection generated a fairly robust particle storm...
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Hot Shots from SOHO
Comet ISON: Comet of The Century?
Comet D/2012 S1 was discovered in September 2012 by Russian astronomers using data from the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON)...
SPOTLIGHT
JHelioviewer: A new way of looking at the Sun
JHelioviewer is new visualization software that enables everyone, anywhere to explore the Sun...
the sun now |
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At 12:50 UT |
| Speed: 417 km/s | |
| Density: 1.46 p/cm3 | |
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