Understanding Solar Flares

| October 27, 2017

Earthsky.org provides an easy understanding of what is a cornoal mass ejection… A CME can launch a billion tons of plasma from the sun’s surface into space, at speeds of over a million miles per hour. Every so often, the sun burps.  But, unlike myself, when the sun burps, it does so with the power […]

X-Class Solar Flares Due Today, Friday 13th

| June 13, 2014

The sun has had three major “X-Class” solar flares on its surface in the past two days that have affected communications on Earth and could send a shockwave through Earth this Friday (the 13th), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ABC reports, the “solar events” caused brief blackouts in high frequency communications when […]

NASA: Huge Solar Flare Jams Radio, Satellite Signals

| February 17, 2011

A powerful solar eruption that triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days, NASA said.    A strong wave of charged plasma particles emanating from the Jupiter-sized sun spot, the most powerful seen in four years, has already disrupted radio […]

Things Are Heating Up…No Pun Intended

| February 16, 2011

LOS ANGELES (CBS)….After years of relative quiet on our nearest star, activity has picked up as of late, resulting in a solar flare that marks the strongest since 2006. After the initial blast of radiation accompanying the coronal mass ejection (CME) — the first of its magnitude to occur in the new solar cycle of […]

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