April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
... high-tech infrastructure and connected world too,” said Max Alexander. “How vulnerable is the world to a major solar storm? This work documents the threat to energy, communications and navigation infrastructure and shows the progress being...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
...Sun at the same time. It will likely bathe Ingenuity and Perservance in a shower of radiation before the solar storm hits. The solar storms have been captured on camera by the Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph (LASCO) instrument housed on the...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... systems, with telegraph machines reported to have caught fire due to the violence of the shock. In contrast, a solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage due to extended outages...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...only 14.6 hours. The towering trianglular shape of the McMath-Pierce solar telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA. Hints of rogue ... and NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group take solar storm warnings very seriously. Space weather efforts by the...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
..., seven days a week when the unit was not being deployed to save the Earth from a massive solar storm, modulating solar radiation to reduce climate change and overheating of the atmosphere? It is more than a little thrilling to think of an invention...
July 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... future behaviour, enhancing our knowledge of climate change and our ability to forecast and predict the impact of solar storms at the Earth. Further reading The Sun, Alexander D., 2009, Series: Greenwood Guides to the Universe, Greenwood Publishing...
