When to See the Northern Lights From the Continental U.S. This Week
Out on the surface of the sun, a huge geomagnetic storm raged this weekend, causing Coronal Mass Ejections (that is, solar flares) to hit earth. There’s nothing to worry about…
How to Prepare for a Solar Flare Hitting Earth (Because It’s Probably Going to Happen)
In the Tom Hanks movie Finch, a massive solar flare destroys the ozone layer, annihilating almost all life on Earth (and leading to the invention of annoying robots). While a…
Maps of the sun’s corona could help us predict dangerous solar storms
By Leah Crane The magnetic field of the sun’s corona has been mapped for the first timeYang et al. 2020 The outermost layer of the sun, called the corona, is…
We can now predict dangerous solar flares a day before they happen
By Jonathan O’Callaghan We now have some prior warning before powerful solar flares occurNASA Goddard A new method to predict solar flares could help us to prepare for potential disasters…