Solar Storm

Exactly how dangerous are solar storms? Scientists think the Carrington Event was one of the most powerful ones to ever hit Earth. They also think that storms that powerful only happen every couple centuries or so. But a new study says we can expect more stor…

It's been an eventful year for sky-gazers in the northern U.S. The northern lightsa phenomenon that's normally limited to the Arctic circleappeared above the country's northern border in March 2019, and then again at the beginning of September. If Michigan re…

In early September 1859, something world-changing occurred. Earth was wracked by a monumental solar storm, which lashed our magnetosphere with a coronal mass ejection, the like of which had never before occurred in recorded history. It's called the Carringto…

Researchers propose in a new study why an extreme solar storm in 1859 was so damaging to Earth's magnetic field. They compared the storm with other extreme storms in history, suggesting this storm is not likely unique. The September 1859 Carrington Event eje…

Guest post by Paul Dorian *Potential role of low solar activity this winter as solar minimum deepens and the wide-ranging impacts of increasing cosmic rays* The sun is blank again today and for the 200th day in 2019 as the solar minimum deepens; image court…

10/04/2019A new sunspot from old Cycle 24 appeared on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, then by Thursday was gone. The sunspot number was 11 on both days, the minimum non-zero sunspot number. Average daily solar flux rose only slightly from 67.3 to 67.6. …

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster; when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Are you sure that you can skin griz? line from film Jerem…

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, stretched far enough south that a large swatch of the northern United States was able to catch the glimmering lights, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Pred…

The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, stretched far enough south that a large swatch of the northern United States was able to catch the glimmering lights, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Pred…

Hey there Kickers! Sorry for the late update today. I've been out at a dinner party and now it is 1am :oRight now there are 312 live Kickstarter Campaigns in the Tabletop Games category (down 1 from last week). Of those, 179 (57.4%) have already reached their…