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
...nations and NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group take solar storm warnings very seriously. Space weather efforts by the... exploration of the full range of space weather storms and their potential impacts improving critical infrastructure security ...
July 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...
June 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...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... that can help mitigate the effects of powerful solar storms that have the potential to disrupt satellites in orbit... the starting point for solar storms, especially if the sunspot is large and complicated. Solar storms involve the sudden releases...
