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What's A Space Hurricane? Researchers Observe The Phenomenon For The First Time KEY POINTS It looks quite like the destructive hurricanes that we know The discovery shows the importance of monitoring space weather Researchers of a new study observed a phenomenon now known as a "space hurricane" for the first time, confirming its existence. It was in 2014 when four Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites spotted what would turn out to be the first observation of a space hurricane. This wasn't like the  hurricanes that we know, with strong winds and rainfall that cause da...

Subscribe UAH alumnus Michael Terres, a research assistant in the department of Space Science (SPA) with The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has been announced as the winner of a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) 2020 grant to study turbulence in solar plasma. The FINESST program provides research grants to graduate students who are designing and performing research projects relevant to the goals of the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in one or more of four divisions: Earth Sciences, Heli...