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ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


Several NASA spacecraft track energy through space

Posted: 26 Sep 2013 05:50 PM PDT

Scientists have provided the most comprehensive details yet of the journey energy from the sun takes as it hurtles around Earth's magnetosphere. Understanding the changes energy from the sun undergoes as it travels away and out into space is crucial for scientists to achieve their goal of some day predicting the onset of space weather that creates effects such as the shimmering lights of the aurora or interruptions in radio communications at Earth.

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