Solar Storm

Solar storms emit harmful radiations, exposure to which is potentially harmful and can cause organ damage, radiation sickness and cancer. Edited By Chitresh Sehgal Updated: Jul 12, 2021, 06:15 PM IST A powerful solar storm, moving towards the Earth at a speed of 1.6 million kilometers per hour, may hit…

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Updated: Sunday, July 11, 2021, 12:59 New Delhi, July 11: A geomagnetic storm (also known as a solar storm) approaching the Earth at a speed of 1.6 million kilometers and this storm will hit the Earth either…

World 24 Jun, 2021 07:04 PM4 minutes to read The pigeons belonged to fanciers from all over the UK and were released in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Photo / Lynda Feringa, File Pigeon enthusiasts are appealing for help after 10,000 prized birds vanished into thin air during a race. Worried breeders fear…

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By Matthew Sparkes Reaching the moon might be harder later this decade NASA/JPL/USGS Solar storms that can injure or kill astronauts are more likely to occur at certain times of the solar cycle, a fact that should be considered during ongoing planning for humans to return to the moon, say…

The vast majority of NASA’s most interesting projects are ones that are fresh and new, like the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. As technology advances, NASA can do more and more interesting and revolutionary things, but sometimes decades-old technology can still provide scientists with novel insights, especially when that technology…

solar storms in space can be picked up by iOS and Android smartphones, meaning billions of people have a personal geomagnetic storm detector — but the signals threaten to interfere with future location-based applications. Hoping to get the public more involved in science, study author Sten F. Odenwald, an astronomer…

Home News Science & Astronomy An illustration of Earth's Van Allen belts, with the trajectories of ultra-relativistic electrons in gray. The colorful loops in the foreground are the orbits of satellites that must pass through this electromagnetically dangerous area of space. (Image: © Ingo Michaelis & Yuri Shprits, GFZ) In…

Solar storms strip a planet’s atmosphere over time, and only a strong magnetosphere would be able to provide maximum protection. Lunar samples gathered by NASA’s Apollo missions recently revealed that the Moon had its own global magnetosphere, lasting from about 4.25 to 2.5 billion years ago. According to new research,…

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun’s corona. They can eject billions of tons of coronal material and carry an embedded magnetic field (frozen in flux) stronger than the background solar wind interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) strength. CMEs travel outward from the…