The X-class solar flare — the most powerful type the sun ... Tuesday's supercharged flare bypassed Earth's magnetic shield, or magnetosphere, and ionized the upper parts of the upper atmosphere ...

The universe is a vast, mysterious place, filled with phenomena that can both awe and alarm us. Among these cosmic events, ...

The storm arrives after days of solar flares that reportedly sent bursts ... geomagnetic storms as "a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange ...

The flare Carrington had observed heralded a solar superstorm—an enormous ... Their combined impact squashed the Earth’s magnetosphere—where the planet’s magnetic field interacts with ...

Magnetic reconnection occurs when anti-parallel magnetic fields—in this case found in solar flares—collide, break, and realign. The process produces a high-energy explosion that flings ...

The agency said isolated minor geomagnetic storms, a type of disturbance in the Earth’s magnetosphere ... “solar maximum,” the period in its 11-year cycle during which solar events, like ...

I am interested in astrophysical plasmas of all varieties. I have dabbled in magnetic reconnection with respect to solar flares, planetary magnetosphere models, aurora, and preparations for Juno's ...

such as solar flares, magnetic substorms in the Earth's magnetosphere, and sawtooth crashes in tokamaks. Most of the theoretical and numerical models of magnetic reconnection, both collisional and ...