Solar Storms
Here’s the View From Sweden During the Recent Solar Storm
Vivid green and purple aurora swirled and danced across the entire night sky in Sweden recently. The nighttime light show…
3 years ago
Scientists Have a new way to Predict the Most Damaging Solar Storms
Space is full of hazards. The Earth, and it’s atmosphere, does a great job of shielding us from most of…
3 years ago
A Sunspot, Revealed in Incredible Detail by Europe’s Newly Upgraded GREGOR Telescope
I wear glasses for astigmatism. But, as a stargazer with a visual impediment, turns out I’m in good company. The…
4 years ago
New Solar Model Successfully Predicted Seven of the Sun’s Last Nine Big Flares
Since it launched in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory has helped scientists understand how the Sun's magnetic field is generated…
4 years ago
Solar Storms Might Confuse Whale Navigation, and Make Them More Likely to Strand Themselves
The Gray Whale is the 10th largest creature alive today, and the 9 creatures larger than it are all whales,…
5 years ago