By Katie Hutton A sunspot that is pointing straight towards Earth and is fast expanding has been seen by scientists. This sunspot has the potential to send an attack of solar energy our way in the coming days, according to Newsweek. A few days ago,…
By Nikolay Atanasova Intelsat, a multinational company that provides satellite services, reports that it has lost control of one of its satellites, which is believed to have been rendered inoperable by space weather when it was struck by a geomagnetic solar storm. Since Friday (August…
By Cap Allon Sunspot AR2859 erupted on Aug 26, producing a C3-class solar flare. SOHO coronagraphs detected the accompanying Coronal Mass Ejection (CME): The storm appears to be on a direct course for Earth, says Dr Tony Phillips (of spaceweather.com). NOAA analysts are looking at…
By Tyler Durden This week’s solar activity report shows a geomagnetic storm watch is in effect between May 18-19. Two Earth-facing sunspots have been identified by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) satellite and could produce storms as early as Tuesday. NASA designated the sunspots as…
By Cap Allon Solar Cycle 25 has been slow to get going — sunspots have been relatively rare — and a recent “blank” spell lasting 2-weeks took most solar physicists by surprise. However, when checking back with NOAA’s official forecast, things appear to be running…
By Chris Fogwill, Keele University; Alan Hogg, University of Waikato; Chris Turney, UNSW, and Zoë Thomas, UNSW The world experienced a few centuries of apocalyptic conditions 42,000 years ago, triggered by a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles combined with changes in the Sun’s behaviour….
By Cap Allon Temperatures on planet Earth have plummeted in line with the great conjunction, the ongoing magnetic reversal/excursion, and the ever-intensifying Grand Solar Minimum — the time to prepare is now: grow your own. Since its February 2020 high of 0.76C, the UAH Satellite-Based…
By Tyler Durden Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) are forecasting the Sun is about to wake up, expected to hurl pulses of energy into space. Earth’s implications could be dire as stormy “space weather” could be disastrous for the digital economy. …
By Cap Allon Jupiter and Saturn are about to do something not seen since the year 1226. The two largest planets in the solar system have fascinated astronomers for hundreds of years. But the gas giants will do something later this month not seen since…
By Cap Allon Yesterday (Nov. 29), Earth-orbiting satellites detected the biggest solar flare in more than 3 years. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme-ultraviolet M-4.4 category blast, which was ejected off the eastern limb of the Sun: NOAA’s GOES X-Ray Flux confirmed the M-4.4 categorization:…
By Cap Allon “AR2786” was already a big sunspot, but it has just grown even bigger with the addition of multiple trailer spots behind the primary dark core: AR2786 with multiple trailer spots. Martin Wise of Trenton, Florida was monitoring the active region on November 25 when…
By Cap Allon Giant sunspot AR2781 is crackling with solar flares, writes Dr Tony Phillips over at spaceweather.com. The strongest so far, a C7-class explosion at 00:22 UT on Nov. 5, lit up the sunspot’s magnetic canopy for nearly an hour. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the…
Op-Ed by Catherine J. Frompovich The largest magnetic storm in two years, which hit Earth on Tuesday, is no joke, Russian scientists warned, saying that increased solar activity threatens electronics and people’s health. (RT – May 14, 2019) The image of the sun on March…
