Solar Storm

The sun at 13:32 on July 15, 2022, just as the filament that resulted in the solar flare begins to detach. Credit: Helioviewer Something is happening to the sun. One of the regions of the solar atmosphere currently exhibiting sunspots caught the attention of observatories on July 11, when there…

Home News The solar filament bursting over the sun's northern hemisphere. (Image credit: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) Solar winds from the snapping of a gigantic "canyon of fire" filament on the sun are set to slam into the Earth today (July 20) or tomorrow (July 21), triggering a weak G1…

The ionosphere and thermosphere (I-T) region sits roughly 50 to 400 miles above the Earth’s surface and will be studied by NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation mission, which will launch in 2027 at the earliest. Credit: NASA University of Michigan researchers will play a central role in NASA's upcoming Geospace Dynamics…

A space weather expert says that an intense solar storm is heading directly towards Earth. Dr. Tamitha Skov, who goes by the name Space Weather Woman on social media, shared a tweet on July 16 warning of the solar storm heading to Earth. The storm is expected to hit Earth…

In an approximate 11-year cycle, the sun blasts out charged particles and magnetised plasma that can distort Earth’s magnetic field, which may disrupt our body clock and ultimately affect the heart Health 17 June 2022 By Alice Klein A solar storm Jurik Peter/Shutterstock Solar storms that disrupt Earth’s magnetic field…

Home References Science & Astronomy The Carrington Event was a coronal mass ejection (CME). (Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The Carrington Event was a large solar storm that took place at the beginning of September 1859, just a few months before the solar maximum of 1860. In August, 1859,…

A big solar storm could fry the internet, but at least space weather forecasts would give us a day or two to prepare. Or maybe not, because physicists have just discovered a new kind of solar storm that strikes without notice Space 18 May 2022 By Stuart Clark Shutterstock/Color4260 TROUBLE…

Andrey Armyagov/Shutterstock Solar storms gain more attention as the world's dependency on satellites increases. Why? Because these storms have the potential to disrupt satellite operations. SpaceX lost 38 out of the 49 Starlink internet satellites it launched in February 2022, for example, because a solar storm hit the Earth's atmosphere around the…

Home News Science & Astronomy The sun unleashed a major solar flare over the Easter holiday weekend, sparking radio blackouts and setting the stage for more solar storms to come.  The Easter solar flare peaked late Saturday (April 16) at 11:34 p.m. EDT (0334 GMT on April 17) and was…

Home News Science & Astronomy (Image credit: Svein-Magne Tunli - tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA) Skywatchers, get set for a storm from the sun — and hopefully an ensuing display of the northern lights. After a dead sunspot hurled a ball of plasma, or superheated gas, toward Earth earlier this week, medium-sized…