As Earth's atmosphere has more nitrogen compared to oxygen, why aren't blue/purple auroras that are caused by nitrogen the most common? The aurora occurs so high up that the mix of air we are familiar with is not the same as at 100 km. The atmosphere there is much less dense, and ...
We're now approaching a solar maximum, expected to occur in July 2025, which will be a time when there are a large number of sunspots and increased solar activity. Massey said the solar events that cause auroras will become more common as we head toward the solar maximum. Other plan...
Scientists used to think that these proton auroras were rare. But the new research shows that they are actually common, especially during southern summer days. This is the time at which this area of the planet is closest to the sun, which supports the relationship with water loss. As the s...
But as I pointed out inmy first post on this subject, this isn’t really the right question, because it implicitly views humans as centrally important and asks why the cosmos as strange. That’s backward.We should instead ask why we ourselves are so slow. Not only does this honor the c...
Howden said there are no real measures for comparing how bad allergy season is each year, but certain years have more pollen and poplar tree fluff compared to others, amplifying allergy symptoms. "It's really hard to say why it'll be harder year-to-year for so...
states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota should be alert for auroras. The incoming CME was hurled into space on July 20th by anM8-classexplosion above giant sunspot 652. The active region has a twisted magnetic field that harbors energy for even more powerful X-class flares in the days ahead....
question that is likely to arise upon being confronted with this entire matter is this: given the very dramatic nature of the predicted Earth changes and extremely serious consequences for everyone and for humanity as a whole, how has it come about that so few people are aware of the dangers...
There was also ahigh tideat around the time the octopuses are thought to have started appearing – so could a storm surge have dropped them on the beach? A sandy beach is not where you would expect these rocky seabed animals to be, so something unusual must have taken them to it. ...
s Ames Research Center in California, explained in astatement. “Before New Horizons, everyone thought Pluto was going to be a netball — completely flat, almost no diversity. But it’s completely different. It has a lot of different landscapes and we are trying to understand what’s going ...
Will it soon reveal new physics? Pregnancy shrinks parts of the brain, leaving 'permanent etchings' postpartum Human knees kind of suck — here's why we haven't evolved better ones Auroras may paint the northern US tonight as Earth reels from 'strong' G3 geomagnetic storm...