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Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future
Solar storms have influenced our history – an environmental historian explains how they could also threaten our future Solar storms have been influencing human history for centuries, from causing telegraph outages in the 19th century to threatening modern civilization’s existence. A series of powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can cause geomagnetic storms […]
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What are solar storms and the solar wind? 3 astrophysicists explain how particles coming from the Sun interact with Earth
What are solar storms and the solar wind? 3 astrophysicists explain how particles coming from the Sun interact with Earth The Sun occasionally ejects large amounts of energy and particles that can interact with Earth, causing solar storms and space weather. Solar winds are streams of plasma that surround and engulf the Earth and other […]
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Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA’s Study of Sun’s Influence Across Space
Upcoming Launch to Boost NASA’s Study of Sun’s Influence Across Space NASA and NOAA are launching three new spacecraft to study the Sun’s influence across space, including the IMAP, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and SWFO-L1 missions. The IMAP mission will investigate the interaction of the solar wind at its boundary with interstellar space and the energization […]
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2 spacecraft flew exactly in line to imitate a solar eclipse, capture a stunning image and test new tech
2 spacecraft flew exactly in line to imitate a solar eclipse, capture a stunning image and test new tech The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched Proba-3, a spacecraft designed to create artificial solar eclipses to study the Sun’s corona and test new technology. Proba-3 works by having two separate spacecraft fly in precise formation, […]
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Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies Space weather events, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, can disrupt satellite operations, shut down electric grids, and expose astronauts to lethal doses of radiation. The SWIFT constellation, a next-generation satellite constellation, aims to predict potentially […]
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Amateur Radio Scientists Shine at the 2025 HamSCI Workshop
Amateur Radio Scientists Shine at the 2025 HamSCI Workshop HamSCI’s annual Workshop, ‘HamSCI’s Big Year’, was held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in late March, attracting over 100 attendees from around the world. The two-day event featured 25 talks on topics such as analysis of HamSCI’s Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science events and […]
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