Sun Storms May Slam Earth
Particles ejected by recent solar storms are due to slam into Earth over the next few days, possibly causing super-charged northern lights displays and temporary radio blackouts in some areas, experts say. On Monday...
Category: CME
Solar Storms Could ‘Sandblast’ the Moon
Solar storms and associated Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can significantly erode the lunar surface according to a new set of computer simulations by NASA scientists. In addition to removing a surprisingly large amount of...
Stormy sun could knock out power grids
(Reuters) – An upcoming cycle of stormy solar activity risks causing damage to electrical transformers and threatening vulnerable energy infrastructure around the globe, a report by an insurance group says. The sun follows a...
INCOMING CME?
Yesterday, Nov. 9th around 1330 UT, a magnetic filament in the vicinity of sunspot complex 1342-1343 erupted, producing a M1-class solar flare and hurling a CME into space. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)...
Part of sun turns into stormy ‘benevolent monster’
WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way. The sun shot off a flare Thursday afternoon from a region that scientists are calling...
Auroras Invade the US
Earth’s magnetic field is still reverberating from a CME strike on March 10, 2011 which resulted in a G1-class geomagnetic storm. Northern Lights have rippling over the US-Canadian border into states such as Wisconsin,...
What is a CME?
CMEs are billion-ton clouds of solar plasma launched by the same sun explosions that spark solar flares.
Space Storm Tracked from Sun to Earth
For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet.
