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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
Solar wind would have briefly intensified dynamics of magnetosphere So why was no plasma observed, and what was happening to ...
Another major eruption from the sun means more auroras for the Northeast
The sun operates on an 11-year cycle with roughly ... A geomagnetic storm is a disruption of the Earth's magnetosphere triggered by an energy transfer from solar winds. According to NOAA, these ...
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Colliding plasma ejections from the Sun generate huge geomagnetic storms − studying them will help scientists monitor future space weather
The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma ... When this complex structure encountered Earth’s magnetosphere, it compressed the magnetosphere and triggered an intense geomagnetic storm.
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Would a powerful solar storm knock out electronics in planes?
A storm as powerful as the Carrington event of 1859 might cause some issues, says a reader, but modern planes have a lot of ...