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CME

Yet Another X-Class Flare From AR 1748

May 14, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Last night, as Commander Hadfield and the Expedition 35 crew were returning to Earth in their Soyuz spacecraft, the Sun unleashed yet another X-class flare from active region 1748, the third and most powerful eruption yet from the sunspot region in [...]

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The White House Releases a Report on Space Weather

April 26, 2013

We live on a planet dominated by weather. But not just the kind that comes in the form of wind, rain, and snow — we are also under the influence of space weather, generated by the incredible power of our home star a “mere” 93 million miles away. As we orbit the Sun our planet [...]

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The Sun Blasts Out Two CME’s Towards Mercury

April 25, 2013

Over the past 24 hours, the Sun has erupted with two coronal mass ejections (CMEs), sending billions of tons of solar particles into space. While these CMEs are not directed at Earth, they are heading towards Mercury and may affect the Messenger spacecraft, as well as the Sun-watching STEREO-A satellites. One CME may send a [...]

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This is What Can Happen When a CME Hits Earth

March 24, 2013

This video taken by Göran Strand from Östersund, Sweden shows what happened on March 17, 2013 when a Coronal Mass Ejection hit Earth’s magnetic field. Two days earlier, sunspot AR1692 had produced a M1-class solar flare that resulted in the CME that hit Earth. This time lapse from an all-sky camera captures the magnificent sky [...]

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Solar Storm Blasting to Mars Shuts Down Curiosity – 1st Rocky Sample Results on tap

March 8, 2013

Due to a fast approaching solar storm, NASA has temporarily shut down surface operations of the Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover. NASA took the precautionary measure because ‘a big coronal mass ejection’ was predicted to hit Mars over the next few days starting March 7, or Martian Sol 207 of the mission, researchers said. [...]

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