Imagine a world where the internet suddenly goes dark. No emails, no social media, no online shopping, and no streaming your ...

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at ... There are also magnetic fields interacting at the sun’s surface; it’s possible these magnetic fields are hitting each other with ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the aurora-causing effects of the solar wind. However, towards the equinox, the two fields ...

Their combined impact squashed the Earth’s magnetosphere—where the planet’s magnetic field interacts with the solar wind—down from ... predict when a CME will hit Earth, plus or minus ...

These interactions can amplify the impact of the CMEs on Earth's magnetic field, sometimes creating geomagnetic storms. Nearly one-third of CMEs interact with other CMEs or the solar wind ...

The storm arrives after days of solar flares that reportedly sent bursts of plasma and magnetic fields towards Earth ... exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment ...

Researchers in Kenya say the geomagnetic field ... by a static magnetic field they calculated was the equivalent of the ‘geomagnetic field’ which protects Earth from the solar wind of cosmic ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the Sun's global coronal magnetic field ... when a violent solar eruption may hit Earth.

The other three satellites each have wide-field imagers that can watch as the corona forms the solar wind, and then track ... the properties of stars, such as magnetic activity.