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Are the northern lights caused by ‘particles from the Sun’? Not exactly
PhotoVisions/Shutterstock Alexander MacKinnon, University of Glasgow What a spectacle a big aurora is, its shimmering curtains and colourful…
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic.…
The ESA’s Solar Orbiter Just Captured the Sun In the Middle of a Giant Solar Eruption
Last February 15, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft, built in cooperation with NASA, was busy…