There’s a Storm Brewing: Sun Cycles The Sun is like a giant heat engine, said Dr. Steven Lantz, senior associate at the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing. Heat can move by one of three processes: ...
Solar storms can have a devastating effect on earth's power and communication grids, and the trio of missions may help to ...
— -- The biggest solar storm in five years is expected to bombard the Earth on Thursday, potentially upsetting airplane flights, GPS systems and electric power grids. The first effects of the ...
Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...
— -- Sequels to the northern lights, like last week's polar sky shows, are likely headed for Earth on a once-a-month basis for the next year or two, solar physics experts say. A strong solar ...
Today, the Earth could feel the effects of three X-class solar flares that erupted off the solar surface earlier this week. Coupled with last night's full moon (visible on the East Coast) this Friday ...
A solar storm occurs when the magnetic fields of the sun get twisted enough from its rotation that they snap. When this happens, they release massive amounts of energy into space. We are not in direct ...