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We Barely Escaped a Solar Flare Catastrophe
A powerful solar flare recently occurred, but fortunately, it did not have a significant impact on Earth. However, it serves ...
Solar activity has been on an overall decline since the ‘80s and scientists were expecting us to plunge into a historic low ...
Solar storms originate from sunspots, darker, cooler areas of the sun’s surface created by the twisting of its magnetic field. Enormous solar flares —“coronal mass ejections” in scientific parlance — ...
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How Prepared Are We for a Rare and Powerful Solar Event?
With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...
In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...
Superflares are extremely strong solar flares, explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares.
The sun is in its most active phase—solar summer—causing auroras and posing real risks to satellites, GPS, and power systems ...
The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter ...
The three satellites look to measure mysteries of space weather while also acting as a warning system for its dangerous effects.
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