Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting EarthSETH BORENSTEIN
Aurora alert: Giant 'hole' in sun and strong geomagnetic storm converge to supercharge northern lights this weekend Rare double solar blast unleashes 2 CMEs towards Earth — auroras possible April 16 The first of the two solar storm waves reached Earth late Thursday right on time, space weather...
In the February 2014 edition ofSpace Weather, physicist Pete Riley of Predictive Science Inc. warned that the odds of a serious geomagnetic storm hitting Earth in the next ten years was 12 percent. Riley told NASA, "Initially, I was quite surprised that the odds were so high, but the stat...
As if on schedule, one of these space storms was expected to hit Earth this weekend--the effect of two solar flares that erupted from the sun Thursday. A storm in 1989 knocked out power in Quebec for more than nine hours and sent garage doors in San Francisco flapping open and closed. ...
A moderate-to-strong solar storm is hitting Earth, causing a potentially significant Aurora Borealis display. Original image has been replaced.Credit: Mashable A widespread display of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is already taking place across the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday night as...
Geomagnetic and solar radiation storms are rated like hurricanes, and thegeomagnetic storm hitting now is considered an "S-3?, in the middle of the scale, with 5 being the most extreme. Our planet isn't out of the woods yet. The area of the Sun where this storm originated 48 hours ago...
“While a solar storm hitting Earth is very unlikely, like an earthquake, it will eventually happen and we need to be prepared.” Solar storms emerging from within the Sun can take from several hours to days to reach Earth. Dr Vasil said that better knowledge of the internal dynamism...
Artist’s rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet’s upper atmosphere. Credit: NASA/GSFC NASA’s MAVEN mission reveals that solar wind appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that ...
The Sun sporadically produces eruptive events leading to intense fluxes of solar energetic particles (SEPs) that dramatically disrupt the near-Earth radiation environment. Such events have been directly studied for the last decades but little is known ab
(AGU) journal Space Weather. To put the damage into a dollar amount, they say that in an extreme blackout scenario, where 66 percent of the US population is without power after a devastating solar storm, the domestic economic loss could be nearly $42 billion...per day. In addition, $7...