Solar Storm

Supernovae are stupendously energetic; many can briefly outshine an entire galaxy. Artist's ... impression. ESO/M. Kornmesser Is Betelgeuse on the eve of destruction? The red supergiant star has been visibly dimming in the last few months, and is currently around a third of its normal brightness, though in recent days…

(Cavan Images/Getty Images) EVAN GOUGH, UNIVERSE TODAY 29 FEBRUARY 2020  The Gray Whale is the 10th largest creature alive today, and the 9 creatures larger than it are all whales, too. Gray Whales are known for their epic migration routes, sometimes covering more than 16,000 km (10,000 miles) on their…

The Gray Whale is the 10th largest creature alive today, and the 9 creatures larger than it are all whales, too. Gray Whales are known for their epic migration routes, sometimes covering more than 16,000 km (10,000 miles) on their two-way trips between their feeding grounds and their breeding grounds.…

SmartNews Keeping you current The new research gives weight to the hypothesis that gray whales use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate A gray whale "spyhopping" off the coast of Alaska. Gray whales migrate over 12,000 miles along North America's west coast. (Marc Webber via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) smithsonianmag.com February…

California gray whales like these mothers and calves are 4.3 times more likely to strand themselves during a burst of cosmic radio static from a solar flare, further evidence that they navigate by Earth's magnetic field.Some whale strandings may be due to solar storms and sunspots, a new study suggests.According…

2019 saw 215 whales stranded on beaches, and many of them died.New research trying to understand how and why this was happening shows that whales quite possibly use the Earth’s magnetic field to self navigate. Solar storms can disrupt the magnetic field, thus rendering the whales blind – and stranded.…

Off CourseA massive new study on gray whale behavior suggests that they navigate the seas, at least in part, by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field and using it as a guide.Unfortunately, that also means that when the magnetosphere is disrupted by a solar storm, it can have disastrous effects. In…

Solar storms may affect the navigation sense of California gray whales, researchers report. Many animals can sense the Earth’s magnetic field and use it like a GPS to navigate during their long migrations. However, solar storms could be disrupting that signal, says Jesse Granger, a biophysics graduate student who studies…

A new study reported in the journal Current Biology on February 24 offers some of the first evidence that gray whales might depend on a magnetic sense to find their way through the ocean. This evidence comes from the discovery that whales are more likely to strand on days when…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study reported in the journal Current Biology on February 24 offers some of the first evidence that gray whales might depend on a magnetic sense to find their way through the ocean. This evidence comes from the discovery that whales are more likely to…