Solar Particles Infiltrate Earth’s Atmosphere Causing a GLE
In an attempt to better understand the sun and the space weather system that surrounds Earth, scientists are gathering information and looking at a unique…
In an attempt to better understand the sun and the space weather system that surrounds Earth, scientists are gathering information and looking at a unique…
As major solar activity continues, NASA captured an image and video of the latest class M1 coronal mass ejection. A beautiful prominence eruption producing a…
The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory was able to capture this incredible video of a recent coronal mass ejection (CME) on April 7th from the sun’s…
Using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescope, new imagery shows solar tornadoes comprised of superheated gases as hot as 50,000 – 2,000,000 Kelvin on the surface…
As researchers to continue monitor and assess the recent solar activity, new data shows that the thermosphere absorbed 26 billion kWh of energy over a…
NASA released a new image of a solar flare from active region 1429. On March 13, 2012, the sun erupted with an M7.9-class flare that…
As NASA continues to give updates on the solar flares this week, they also put together a nice summary of space weather and the effects…
Powerful magnetic disturbances in Sol’s corona have hurled a large burst of charged particles into space on March 4th. The solar storm erupted from the…
While using high-speed cameras to look at jets of plasma, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) discovered a surprising connection between kink instability…
Using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft, researchers at UCLA have explained the disappearance of energetic electrons in Earth’s outer radiation belt. In…
Scientists are studying the Van Allen Radiation belts to gain a better understanding about the radiation encircling the Earth. It was once feared that these…
Just in time for the peak in solar activity, Goddard’s Space Weather Laboratory will be fully functional in the next twenty months and will allow…
The sun erupted on January 22-23, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, captured here in a movie by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The flare…
The most powerful solar radiation storm since 2005 was caused by a solar energetic particle event concurrent with an M8.7 class flare and a coronal…
An active sunspot erupted on Sol on January 19th, at around 16:30 UT, which produced an M3-class solar flare as well as a full-halo coronal…