These missions will help safeguard both our ground-based technology, as well as our human and robotic space explorers from the harsh conditions known of space weather.
Category: Spaceweather
Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Are Coming For Your GPS
The ionosphere plays a critical role in GPS systems by reflecting or distorting radio waves passing through it. Under certain conditions, your GPS might go haywire.
The Sun’s Little-Known 100-year “Gleissberg Cycle” is Waking Up
You’ve probably heard of the 11-year sunspot cycle. The Gleissberg Cycle is a slower modulation, which suppresses sunspot numbers every 80 to 100 years. For the past ~15 years, the…
‘Black Auroras’ over Alaska
Salat may have witnessed an episode of ‘black auroras.’ They are dark rings or black blobs that sometimes appear in an otherwise ordinary expanse of auroral light.
Strongest Solar Flare Yet of Solar Cycle 25 Took Place Earlier Today…CME To Strike This Weekend with Widespread Auroras Possible
Preliminary coronagraph images show a “halo” coronal mass ejection or CME – a plume of plasma and magnetic field – emerging from the blast site which is likely to strike…
Tree Rings Reveal Largest Solar Storm EVAH!
Guest “Well, the largest yet identified,” by David Middleton NEWS RELEASE 9-OCT-2023 Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS An international team of…
Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle
This long set of observations shows that the number of clouds grows increasingly following a peak in the solar cycle – where the Sun’s level of activity rhythmically rises and…
How could the Aurora Borealis affect energy grids when renewables are added to the mix?
When you have solar, wind and battery storage, it has to be connected to the grid through what we call inverters, or solid-state power converters
Mapping a Magnetic Superstorm: March 1989 Geoelectric Hazards and Impacts on United States Power Systems
Geomagnetically induced currents realized during the magnetic storm of March 1989 caused a blackout in Québec, Canada, and, in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States, they caused operational interference for…
VIDEO: Watch Starlink Satellites Fall from the Sky
Video follows below. As many as 40 Starlink satellites are currently falling out of the sky–the surprising result of a minor geomagnetic storm. SpaceX made the announcement yesterday: “On Thursday, Feb. 3rd…
New sunspot catalogue to improve space weather predictions
Monitoring sunspots is therefore crucial for predicting dangerous space weather events and their effects on air travelers, astronauts, and the equipment and infrastructure — both on Earth, in orbit, and…
Which way does the solar wind blow?
“No doubt, in years to come, the quality of data from the photosphere and solar corona will be improved dramatically, both because of new data available and new, more sophisticated…
A New Space Instrument Captures Its First Solar Eruption
Solar Orbiter has already taken the closest picture of the Sun to date, and it will only get closer. Solar Orbiter’s official mission begins in November, when SoloHI and the…
Scientists invent a method for predicting solar radio flux for two years ahead
Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their colleagues from the University of Graz & the Kanzelhöhe Observatory (Austria) and the ESA European Space Operations Centre…
The greatest geomagnetic storm of the 20th Century…May 13-15, 1921…a century ago, New York City/New York State were especially hard hit
One thing is certain, we should be prepared for another massive solar storm of the magnitude of the “Carrington Event of 1859” or the great geomagnetic storm of May 1921…
Study claims: Climate Change Increasing the Risk of Space Junk Collisions
Before you ask, it’s not because of all the climate satellites NASA plans to launch in the next few years.
In First, Scientists Trace Fastest Solar Particles to Their Roots on the Sun
“Normally, you have to infer this kind of thing – you’d say, ‘look we saw an SEP and a solar flare, and the SEP probably came from the solar flare,’”…
Surprise! Study finds solar winds hit north pole more than south
From the UA website and the not THAT Mann department: University of Alberta physicists have discovered a surprising imbalance in how the Earth responds to space weather driven by the…
A method has been developed to study extreme space weather events
The results can help to better understand and predict the most extreme space weather events and their potential to cause strong geomagnetic storms that directly affect the operation of engineering…
Weird: Out of Nowhere, Something Just Rocked Earth’s Magnetic Field
A GLOBAL MAGNETIC ANOMALY: On June 23rd, Earth’s quiet magnetic field was unexpectedly disturbed by a wave of magnetism that rippled around much of the globe. There was no solar…
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