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All news for May 2010

• The AGILE satellite detects “super-energetic” lightning that may affect aircraft navigation, asi.it (May 17, 2010)
  
  Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs) associated with tropical thunderstorms 14 Feb 2010 The AGILE space mission is detecting a special type of lightning that emit intense gamma-ray radiation of large intensity. This lightning phenomenon is observed to be concentrated especially in the equatorial region. AGILE is a space mission of the Italian Space...
• The First Geomagnetic Effect of new 24th Solar Activity Cycle detected at Aragats Space... (May 7, 2010)
  
  A geomagnetic storm began at 08:55 UT on Monday, April 5, 2010. Space weather storm levels reached Strong (G3) levels on the Geomagnetic Storms Space Weather Scale. The source of the storming is an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection associated with a weak solar flare that occurred in Active Region 1059 on April 3 at 08:54 UT. The event registered Kp = 7 on the 0-to-9 Kp...
• Yerevan Physics Institute Cosmic Ray Division History, status and development 2009-2014 (May 4, 2010)
  
  p> In 1942 the Alikhanyan brothers initiated the first expedition to Aragats.  Since then, expeditions to Aragats have  continued uninterruptedly, despite the World War II, insufficient funding, and electricity and fuel shortages during the recent history of Armenia.  The most important dates and achievements of Cosmic Ray research at Aragats can be itemized as...