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Author(s): Rui Liu and Haimin WangAffiliation(s): Space Weather Research Laboratory, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, NJIT, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Author(s): E V Astrova and G V FedulovaAffiliation(s): Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 26 Polytekhnicheskaya, St Petersburg 194021, Russia

Author(s): Ilya G. Usoskin, Kalevi Mursula, Rainer Arlt, and Gennady A. KovaltsovAffiliation(s): Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory (Oulu unit), University of Oulu, Finland; Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland; Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany; Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of RAS, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia

Author(s): Carlton Pryor, Slawomir Piatek, and Edward W. OlszewskiAffiliation(s): Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019, USA; Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA; Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

Author(s): Andrey E. Vladimirov, Andrei M. Bykov, and Donald C. EllisonAffiliation(s): North Carolina State University, Department of Physics, Raleigh, NC 27695-8202, USA; Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) A $5 million National Science Foundation grant to upgrade and expand a set of radio frequency antennas at Owens Valley Solar Array has been awarded to NJIT. The new facility is expected to help scientists better understand the nature of solar flares which greatly interest government, industry and the military.

(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections.

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) NJIT received today from Apollo Solar Energy, Inc. a three-year, $1.5 million grant to establish a solar research center. The company, based in Chengdu, the People's Republic of China, mines and refines tellurium (Te) and high-purity tellurium-based metals for specific segments of the global electronic materials market.

Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The number of solar flares increases approximately every 11 years, and the sun is currently moving towards another solar maximum, likely in 2013. That means more flares will be coming, some small and some big enough to send their radiation all the way to Earth.