Viewpoint: 12/21/2012: Will the Earth end (again)? Nov 21, 2009
Any large Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) could damage satellites and cell phones, while giving us a huge Aurora Borealis and an Aurora Australis. In 400,000,000 years, the expanding Sun will give us real trouble. (Danvers Herald, MA)
Hogan's Blog: Friday Wet Commute and Weekend Traffic Look Ahead Nov 21, 2009
Shoreline: A structure fire has both directions of Aurora Ave N. at 170th closed. TIME: 1:29am UPDATE: Shoreline - Aurora closed from 175th to 165th for a structure fire. (KIRO TV, WA)
Obama Tops Forbes World's Most Powerful List Nov 13, 2009
A multiple alarm fire is burning at a business complex at 170th and Aurora Ave N. in Shoreline. A KIRO 7 News crew is at the scene and reports that most of the smoke and fire is coming from the Discount World, with possible extension into a pre-owned office furniture store. (KIRO TV, WA)
Nickels seeks laws to keep guns from kids and criminals Nov 3, 2009
Flying Elephant on Aurora After months of restoration, the Aurora Elephant, a 9,500-pound landmark at Aurora Rents, is hoisted through the air. Rescue unit trains for possible Green River flooding. (Yahoo News -- School Violence)
Typhoon Mirinae already raining on the Philippines Oct 31, 2009
Public storm warning signal 3 is in effect in the following districts of Luzon: Quezon, Polillo island, Bulacan, Bataan, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Oriental Mindoro, Lubang Island, Marinduque, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Metro Manila; Public storm warning signal 2 is in effect in the following districts of Luzon: Aurora, Quirino, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Pampanga, Zambales, Occidental Mindoro, Albay, Burias Island; and Public storm warning signal 1 is in effect in the... (EurekAlert!)
Why Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Could Hurt Obama Oct 10, 2009
President Barack Obama greets military personnel at the Camp Victory U.S. military base in Baghdad Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME. MORE. (Time.com)
Typhoon Melor and Tropical Storm Parma mean double trouble in the western Pacific Oct 8, 2009
Public storm warning signal 1 is in force in Batanes Group of Islands, Cagayan, Babuyan Island, Calayan Island, Ilocos Norte Apayao, Abra, Kalinga, Mountain Province, Isabela, Ifugao, Nueva Vizcaya, Northern Aurora and Benguet. An instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured both typhoons in one image. (EurekAlert!)
Thousands flee as Typhoon Parma nears Oct 3, 2009
Camarines Norte, Aurora, Quezon, Polillo Island, Isabela, Cagayan evacuating ... The order focuses on Camarines Norte, Aurora, northern Quezon, Polillo Island, Isabela and Cagayan. (CNN -- World)
Local bank branch goes solar Sep 23, 2009
Tesla Motors employee Jim Brady, left, unplugs an electric sports car to show customer Aurora Grimm of Montecito. Rabobank unveiled a solar-powered electric car recharging station Tuesday, the first of a chain of such recharging stations along the Central Coast. (Santa Maria Times)
Ganymede Makes Big Impression On Jupiter's Auroral Lightshows Sep 20, 2009
19, 2009) Studies of features in Jupiter s spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost moons ... As Ganymede and Io orbit Jupiter, they interact with regions of plasma and generate electromagnetic waves that are projected along Jupiter s magnetic field lines towards Jupiter s poles where they cause auroral bright spots ... Scientists from the University of Li;ge in Belgium have... (Science Daily)
Letters to the editor Sep 3, 2009
A Letter to the Editor ("Golfers versus snakes," Sept. 2) challenges the rare and endangered status of the red-legged frog (Rana aurora) because the author hears the frogs from a block away. What she is most likely hearing is the Pacific chorus frog (Pseudacris regilla), whose chorus of bellows can be heard from quite a distance. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Huge solar storm could hit Earth again Sep 3, 2009
Colorful aurora, normally visible only in polar regions, were seen as far south as Cuba and Hawaii. Earth's magnetic field normally protects the surface of the planet from some storms. (MSNBC -- Technology)
NASA, Air Force Test Environmentally-friendly Rocket Propellant Aug 25, 2009
23, 2007) From Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, four NASA rockets launched into an aurora display over northern Alaska, starting at 3:29 a.m. Alaska Standard Time. Scientists hope to learn more. (Science Daily)
Britains UFO files raise new puzzles Aug 18, 2009
The head of the ministry's UFO desk wrote briefing notes in 1993 reporting a spate of sightings in southwest England and speculating whether they might be connected to Aurora, a secret U.S. spy plane whose existence has never been officially admitted. Atop one of his letters, someone scrawled: "Thank you. I suggest you now drop this subject.". (MSNBC -- Technology)
Violent Youth Of Solar Proxies Steers Life Aug 11, 2009
In reality, they are the sounds that accompany the aurora. Now ESA's. (Science Daily)
Canine family histories revealed Aug 4, 2009
The jigsaw of how these remarkable differences emerged has now been pieced together by Ms Lynch, from the Canine Studies Institute in Aurora, Ohio, and Jenny Madeoy, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in Washington State. They looked through ancient texts, historical records, archaeological artefacts, works of art and the latest papers on genetics to develop their map of dog ancestry. (BBC News -- Science)
Looking Up: Counting the stars Aug 1, 2009
Then there is the occasional Aurora or Northern Lights, an electrical disturbance in the ionosphere caused by particles from the sun. Distant lightning flashes ( heat lightning ) may also add to the natural nighttime light show. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Aurora pays visit to North Dakota Jul 27, 2009
I had the extreme pleasure of being stationed at the U.S. Navy Air Station on KodiakIsland in Alaska for 16 months during the Korean War ~~~ so I was not deprived ofenjoying numerous Aurora Borealis's ~~~ but your words on the Double Ditch ruinsreally took me back to early teenage days when I would jump on my bike and rideout there to the to search for arrowheads & pottery shards. Those were the days. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
World's natural wonders Jul 23, 2009
Aurora Borealis (Northern Canada) The northern polar lights are only visible in the sky from the Northern Hemisphere. The closer you are to the magnetic North Pole, which is currently in the arctic islands of northern Canada, the better your chances of seeing them. (iAfrica.com)
The Role of Sunspots and Solar Winds in Climate Change Jul 22, 2009
But scientists are the first to admit that they have a lot to learn about phenomena like sunspots and solar wind, some of which is visible to humans on Earth in the form of Aurora Borealis and other far flung interplanetary light shows. Some skeptics of human-induced climate change blame on natural variations in the sun s output due to sunspots and/or solar wind. (Scientific American)
The great comet collision Jul 21, 2009
After fragment K hit, it even sparked an aurora in the magnetosphere above it as the upward moving blast wave accelerated charged particles through Jupiter s immense magnetic field. The largest of the impacts belonged to fragment G on 18 July, which left a bruise 12,000 kilometres across, unleashing the equivalent of six million megatons of TNT on poor, battered Jupiter. (Astronomy Now Online)
Scientists Look Beyond Earth To Understand Auroras Jul 20, 2009
In 1621, Pierre Cassendi paired Aurora, goddess of dawn, with Boreas, god of the north wind, to christen the northern lights aurora borealis. Those centered above the South Pole are called aurora australis for southern dawn ... Anatomy of an Aurora. (Science Daily)
A Spurt of Quake Activity Raises Fears in Yellowstone Jul 19, 2009
The Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park flows past other geysers, including Old Faithful, part of the Yellowstone Caldera Jose Azel / Aurora / Getty. MORE.. (Time.com)
Enlighteningand unusual spots for geeks Jul 10, 2009
Not many business travelers will get a chance to hunt down the ever-moving Magnetic North Pole, or stay up until the middle of the night in Fairbanks, Alaska, to see the Aurora Borealis. But there are plenty that are a short rental car drive from major business destinations, and many of them are both fascinating and virtually unknown. (MSNBC -- Travel)
New agreement to link up Europe's polar research Jun 24, 2009
The ESF European Polar Board is also coordinating the world's biggest Arctic project: ERICON Aurora Borealis, Europe's Arctic flagship. The 800 million research icebreaker will be the world's first international ship and will be a unique platform for ocean observations to understand all aspects of global change from the seabed to the atmosphere. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Sun stands still during the summer solstice Jun 22, 2009
Forget the aurora; it's still there, dancing in the upper atmosphere, but we can't see it. Stars too are a memory. (Anchorage Daily News)
Six Top-Secret Aircraft Mistaken for UFOs Jun 4, 2009
This Area 51 alum was briefly reactivated in the 1990s, and rumors of a followup the now-legendary Aurora project have supplied both UFO believers and skeptics with a possible source of unexplained sightings. 4. (Fox News)
Earth losing atmosphere faster than neighbors Jun 3, 2009
"The visible manifestation of geomagnetic activity is the aurora the sun interacts with magnetosphere and causes it to glow but there are other things that go on when the particles interact with the atmosphere," said Scott Bailey, with the. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Magnetic Tremors Pinpoint Space Storms May 29, 2009
All night long, every night, the observatories take 3-second time resolution snapshots of the aurora and measure corresponding variations in Earth's magnetic field strength and direction every half second. An analysis of the auroral movies and magnetic variations by Dr. Jonathan Rae from the University of Alberta pinpointed just when and where one substorm explosively released its magnetic energy ... "Undulating auroral features and ripples in Earth's magnetic field began at the same time and... (Science Daily)
Obituaries for Friday, May 15, 2009 May 15, 2009
and Lisa Van Dreese of Wisconsin Rapids; three grandchildren, Chris Van Dreese of Aurora, Colo. Katelyn Van Dreese of La Crosse, and Bryan Van Dreese of La Crosse; one sister, Gladys Bates of Wisconsin Rapids; one brother, Leo (Chi Ling) Bates of Oceanside, Calif. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
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Aurora photo by Paul Valleli. Paul Valleli Wednesday, May 13. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Auroras from "Space Tornadoes" Apr 30, 2009
Space Shuttle astronauts sometimes see layers of auroras over the rim of the Earth ... So if you wonder why you still can't get straight how the aurora borealis forms, it's not your fault ... The group found a new kind of structure, twisted magnetic vortexes, that channel some aurora electrons on their way to us. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Electricity Measured Inside Space Tornadoes Apr 28, 2009
The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, five miles outside Kearney, Neb ... As the ions circle, they produce strong electrical currents that help create the gorgeous light show known as the aurora ... The tornadoes then channel this current of flowing electric charge along twisted magnetic field lines into Earth's ionosphere to spark bright and colorful auroras. (Fox News)
Autonomous Antarctic observatories gather space weather data Apr 10, 2009
Keeping an unsleeping eye on the phenomena that cause the aurora. This is the Aurora Australis over the South Pole ... Recently, data from these observatories were used in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's array of THEMIS satellites to reveal new information about magnetospheric substorms--the sudden release of energy that causes auroral displays. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
LOOKING UP: Year of Astronomy inspires us to look up Apr 4, 2009
AURORA BOREALIS, or Northern Lights, on rare occasions makes a spectacular show in mid-northern latitudes or even farther south. This aurora was photographed in Alaska in December 2004. (Medfield Press, MA)
Lunar prize sets Asian hearts racing Apr 3, 2009
Another US team, Team Next Giant Leap, which was known simply as the "Mystery Team" for over a year, includes several US companies and universities which work for the US Department of Defense including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Space Systems Laboratory, Microsat Systems Inc, Aurora Flight Sciences Corp, and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc.. "There are individuals on these US-based and other teams who do research with public funds, and so in the end, some of their work... (Asia Times Online)
• Stargazing marathon is tonight at Herrett Center Mar 27, 2009
Times-News file photoSamantha Ruggles, 9, at telescope, and friend Aurora Scherer, 9, get some help from the Herrett Center's Centennial Observatory manager, Chris Anderson, in identifying solar prominence in 2006. At tonight's Messier Marathon, of course, the sun won't be among the telescope's targets. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Space Storm Alert: 'We're moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster'... Mar 26, 2009
Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived ... There were eyewitness accounts of stunning auroras, even at equatorial latitudes ... High latitude nations such as Sweden and Norway have been aware for a while that, while regular views of the aurora are pretty, they are also reminders of an ever-present threat to their electricity grids. (The Drudge Report)
Final rocket launches, measures aurora movement Mar 25, 2009
The Black Brant XII sounding rocket with the CASCADES II experiment launched and flew through an active aurora display March 20 at 3:04 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time ... Snow, strong winds and minimal aurora made for a significant delay in the launch ... The four-stage rocket, measuring more than 60 feet long, arced through the aurora, reaching its peak about 350 miles over Kaktovik. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Epcot's International Flower and Ga... Mar 21, 2009
This year Cinderella and Prince Charming, Snow White with the seven dwarfs, Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip, and Belle and the Beast are center stage in front of the park's landmark Spaceship Earth. New for this year include. (Suite101.com)
JIM DODSON: The Old Man and the Tree Mar 17, 2009
" "We came back here, and her father took me up to Carthage and deeded us two acres right across the road from him -- probably thinking he should keep an eye on us," Howard allowed wryly. Hard Working People So Howard Troutman became a farmer after all. In 1939, Howard built the handsome white frame house on Currant Street Extension where they live today. He landscaped it, built equipment barns and storage sheds, and laid out a massive vegetable garden. He planted tobacco, which he harvested and... (The Pilot Newspaper)
Hoquiam biodiesel plant cuts 24 workers Mar 14, 2009
DW wrote on Mar 13, 2009 2:08 PM:" We'll Lucky you walked into that one face first. I will not except the notion that Obama was left with Bush's mess. We the people have allowed this to happen, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves by voting in left wing socialists, and liberal Republicrats, and Bush himself, who governed far to the left. What Obama and his buddies in DC are doing now is taking the policies of the last 20 years and putting them on steroids. They are sacking the treasury, and... (Longview Daily News, WA)
A Scary 13th: 20 Years Ago, Earth Was Blasted with a Massive Plume of Solar Plasma [Slide Show] Mar 14, 2009
Violent space weather treated many to a fantastic display of colorful auroras, but damaged power grids left six million Canadians in the dark ... As Sten Odenwald, an astrophysicist at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., relates in his book The 23rd Cycle, what ensued was one of the grandest displays of auroras usually manifested as the aurora borealis () or aurora australis (southern lights) in recent times ... Auroras form when Earth's magnetic field funnels highly... (Scientific American)
'No buyer' for Principles' shops Mar 7, 2009
A new firm owned by Kaupthing and former Mosaic bosses, called Aurora, was formed, which now controls those brands ... The deal to sell most of the brands to Aurora is known as a pre-packaged administration. (BBC News -- Business)
Cosmologists seek to identify the physics of key components in their picture of the universe Mar 6, 2009
The Aurora Australis (the Southern Lights) glow over the South Pole Telescope. The dark sky over the South Pole Telescope shows the Milky Way, from the top left to the bottom right. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
North Korea, UN Hold Urgent Missile Talks Mar 2, 2009
Two crashes occurred on Seattle's Aurora Avenue Bridge Thursday night, including one that involved a police car. Each weekday kirotv. (KIRO TV, WA)
Alps-like Mountains Exist Under Antarctic Ice Feb 25, 2009
30, 2008) Scientists believe the barely observed Aurora Subglacial Basin, which lies in East Antarctica, could represent the weak underbelly of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest remaining body of ice. (Dec. (Science Daily)
100 Years Ago: Rescue Tugs Bring Safety to the Ocean Feb 21, 2009
VAN ALLEN BELTS "Our planet is ringed by a region to be exact, two regions of high-energy radiation extending many thousands of miles into space. The discovery is of course troubling to astronauts; somehow the human body will have to be shielded from this radiation, even on a rapid transit through the region. But geophysicists, astrophysicists, solar astronomers and cosmic-ray physicists are enthralled by the fresh implications of these findings. The configuration of the region and the radiation... (Scientific American)
4 rockets launch from Poker Flat Research Range Feb 20, 2009
The harmless vapor trails of the first rocket dissipated in about 20 minutes, after which Lehmacher and the launch crew sent following rockets into the same portion of the sky, which was clear with a faint arc of the aurora to the north ... Next to launch is an experiment named Cascades II. Kristina Lynch of Dartmouth College is the principal investigator for the Cascades experiment, in which one 58-foot, four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket will blast off from Poker Flat into an active... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Cosmologists Seek First Moments Of Universe Feb 17, 2009
The South Pole Telescope under the aurora australis (southern lights). (Credit: Photo by Keith Vanderlinde). (Science Daily)
Five rockets ready to launch at Poker Flat Research Range Feb 14, 2009
His experiment requires a night with clear skies and no moonlight, but a quiet aurora will suffice for his experiment ... Kristina Lynch of Dartmouth College is the principal investigator for the other mission named Cascades II. In the Cascades experiment, a 58-foot, four-stage Black Brant II sounding rocket will blast off from Poker Flat into an active aurora display when the weather is clear above Chatanika and at camera sites in Toolik Lake and Kaktovik, on Alaska's north slope ... As the... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Astrophotography Feb 8, 2009
Photographing the aurora is not that difficult, but it does require a combination of the correct lens, the proper ISO (film) speed, the right exposure, and (of course) a cooperative auroral display. Sky Publishing, a New Track Media Company Copyright 2009 New Track Media. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
More weather news Feb 8, 2009
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Steep-Terrain Rover To Explore Other Planets, Help Back On Earth Feb 7, 2009
(July 11, 2006) As part of ESA's ambitious, long-term Aurora exploration programme, ExoMars will search for traces of life on Mars. The mission requires entirely new technologies for self-controlled robots, built-in. (Science Daily)
Top 100 Courses Outside the U.S. Feb 7, 2009
Beacon Hall G.C. Aurora, Canada 20. Kingsbarns G. Links St. Andrews, Scotland 21. (ESPN -- Golf)
Winter vacations sans skis Feb 7, 2009
Track the Northern Lights in Tromso, NorwayTravel north to witness the aurora borealis, the most spectacular natural light show on earth ... A historic Scandinavian city that hosts an annual Aurora Festival, Tromso even has a northern lights observatory. (MSNBC -- Travel)
