Radiation is all around us, from the sun and space and other natural sources.
In 2008 and 2009, the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind, and low solar irradiance.
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Astronauts would also be bombarded with solar energetic particles, which get accelerated close to the sun as a result of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that shoot portions of the sun into space.
So they would cool the Earth by hanging around and by reflecting more heat from the sun back into space.
Similarly, the mass of the sun distorts the space-time around it.
The "white parasol" at the top of the planet reflects energy from the Sun straight back out into space, helping to cool the Earth.
Business might be slow, but along with the fortune-tellers and healers, the henna tattooists, acrobats and gnaoua, the spiritual musicians, they know the importance of claiming your space before the sun goes down and the big breaks come.
Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope.
We saw business school graduates, tech engineers, everything under the sun except product developers lead into this space.
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One of the enduring mysteries of the Solar System is how the ordered network of planets orbiting the Sun spontaneously emerged form the chaos of space.
This past weekend saw a particularly stunning display following a phenomenon known as a coronal mass ejection, where the sun spews a burst of particles into space that reach Earth one to three days later.
It is colossal, 2.5 million times heavier than our Sun but crammed into a small region of space.
This is a consequence of darker surfaces absorbing more heat from the Sun rather than reflecting it back out into space.
Wayyu Taya provides them with a space, protected from the harsh sun and rain, materials and an opportunity to discuss family planning, nutrition and hygiene.
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He wrongly suggests that Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin doctor, worked for The Sun newspaper, and devotes a lot of space to a criticism of Labour's pitch for aspirational votes, confusing "Mr Galaxy" with the driver of the Ford Sierra Tony Blair famously recalled meeting during the 1992 general election.
Mr. Scharf makes vivid the mind-boggling nature of the universe by noting, for instance, that the space between a star like the sun and its nearest neighbor is 30 million times the diameter of the sun itself and that there are 10 billion stars in the universe for every human being who has ever walked the Earth.
Klein's writing for large ensemble creates a space where these genres warp under the sun of jazz improvisation.
Still, Lanza believes that's enough to make the company competitive against the likes of Sun Microsystems and Symbol Technologies for leadership in the space.
It is more likely, then, that the object was floating free in space, and was captured by the sun's gravity in what was, in astronomical terms, the fairly recent past.
The energy that comes into it from the sun is absorbed by air molecules and reradiated to space during the normal ups and downs in solar energy that occur over a roughly 11-year time span.
Top of the list is a solar shade, a gigantic umbrella in space that would shield the Earth from the sun's rays.
The transit of Venus can't be observed with the Hubble Space Telescope because the extreme brightness of the sun would destroy the telescope and its instruments.
During the eight days and 22 hours the mission is scheduled to run--eight days and 17 hours more than Glenn got last time--the astronauts will be kept busy releasing and retrieving a sun-sensing satellite, testing components for the Hubble Space Telescope, and conducting experiments in an onboard laboratory.
At this point in space, the gravity of the Earth and the Sun act in such a way that the telescope will be stationary relative to the Earth and Sun.
That is not true, for just as the Pilgrims set their sights on the ocean horizon, and the settlers looked out across to the West and the setting sun, so C20 America and its citizens became pioneers into space.
The coarse, almost particulate sun was showering in through the window, filling the small antiseptic space with a false radiance.
Now only visible with the largest ground-based telescopes or from space, 1999 RQ36 currently lies about one earth-sun distance away.
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Solar storms are violent eruptions on the sun that send a wave of charged particles, called plasma, into space at the speed of more than one million miles per hour.
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"When they come close to the Sun, this ice melts - solar wind blows this material out into space, so you get a tail of matter coming off the comet, " explains O'Brien.
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