The sun's magnetic field last flipped toward the end of 2013. What causes this switch in polarity, and is it dangerous for anything on Earth? Let's take a deep dive into the phenomenon of the sun ...

Most of the time, the Earth and Sun’s magnetic fields are misaligned, leaving our planet’s field less open to the ...

Most remain buried inside the sun’s massive girth, but some magnetic pipes, as thick as the Earth ... field lines encircling it from pole to pole like a birdcage. Local field lines, entangled ...

What Causes The Northern Lights? Explained. Short answer? The sun. The lights are caused by the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and charged particles from the sun's atmosphere that ...

who monitor the Sun’s activity and changes to the Earth’s magnetic field, in order to make predictions about when a CME might arrive. These warnings allow companies and organisations to take ...

made the very first direct observations of a crucial hookup between the magnetic fields of the sun and the Earth. Called reconnection, this linkage is an important aspect of the transformation ...

The Space Weather Prediction Center issued the extended storm warning because a "coronal hole" on the sun is facing ... is pointed directly at Earth. Earth's magnetic field deflects most of ...

nor the sun or stars, which were known to serve them as navigational aids. Clearly they were acting on something invisible, and Fromme deduced it must be the Earth's magnetic field. Numerous ...

Results from EZIE will help NASA better understand the dynamics of the Earth-sun connection and help ... However, the electrojets create a magnetic field that can split apart that 118 gigahertz ...