University of Michigan researchers use Frontera supercomputer to improve space weather forecasting system, avoid worst…
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Space weather describes the dynamic conditions in Earth’s outer space environment, driven by activity from the Sun such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and high-speed solar winds. These phenomena can disrupt satellite operations, communication networks, navigation systems, and even power grids on Earth. Scientists study space weather to better understand the Sun-Earth connection and to develop forecasts that can help protect critical technologies and infrastructure from its sometimes dramatic effects.
Trapped ions discovered at midlatitudes can have energies exceeding 100 megaelectron volts per nucleon. Their…
A neural network named CHRONNOS can now detect solar coronal holes with high accuracy, helping…
Years of eclipse observations reveal the solar corona’s temperature remains constant across solar cycles, defying…
A rare three-way observation of transient luminous events links them to disturbances in Earth’s magnetic…
Tiny charged electrons and protons which can damage satellites and alter the ozone have revealed…
Physicists have confirmed that Alfven waves accelerate electrons toward Earth by a “surfing” mechanism, creating…
Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather prediction. The surface of the…
The Earth’s atmosphere has four primary layers: the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. These layers…
Launched in 2007, the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, mission is the…
NASA’s KiNET-X mission launched from Virginia to study plasma interactions between solar wind and Earth’s…
Scientists at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and their colleagues from the…
First study of timing of extreme space weather events reveals clear pattern. Planned missions to…
Scientists have long questioned why the bursts of hot gas from the Sun do not…
https://youtu.be/E9LBH4fkmZc The famed northern and southern lights have been studied for millennia, but they still…
https://youtu.be/Mqj3y_I0JQc Combining imagery from three of Solar Orbiter’s remote sensing instruments – the Extreme Ultraviolet…
NASA’s SHIELDS mission will study incoming hydrogen atoms to map the solar system’s edge and…
Electrons arriving from the Sun are propelled by electrical energy generated as high as 30,000…