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Giant shock waves emanating from the Sun can give us some breathtaking auroras here on Earth. They can also cause energy surges that can damage our infrastructure, says a new study that looks at how their angles of impact shape their consequences.Conti… Continue reading Interplanetary shock wave angles are key to infrastructure threat
If you’re planning to get out and see the aurora next time the Sun fires a blast our way, you might want to keep an eye out for a brand new type of sky glow that’s just been discovered. This short-lived phenomenon only appears after midnight and seems … Continue reading Satellites spot strange sky glow that only comes out after midnight
So you say you missed the Great Solar Storm of 2024 along with its attendant aurora? We feel you on that; the light pollution here was too much for decent …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 2, 2024
If there was one question we heard most often this week, it was “Did you see it?” With “it” referring to the stunning display of aurora borealis — and australis, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 19, 2024
While millions of people who couldn’t normally see the aurora borealis took in the recent color-filled spectacle in the night sky, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory was looking straight at the sun to catch all the action. The fiery footage is well wort… Continue reading NASA video: Solar storms are as impressive as the auroras they caused
The aurora borealis (and its southern equivalent, the aurora australis) is a fleeting and somewhat rare phenomenon that produces vivid curtains of color in the sky at extreme latitudes. It’s …read more Continue reading All-Sky Camera Checks for Aurora
Aurora Flight Sciences has updated the design of its Liberty Lifter seaborne military heavy-lift transport – a highly efficient X-plane the company is developing for DARPA that achieves bulk lift by using wing-in-ground effect.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading DARPA’s ground-effect X-plane will haul 100 tons of cargo
DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC) actuators that use jets of air for control.Continu… Continue reading DARPA okays construction of X-65 plane with air jet flight controls
The Sun is approaching the most active period of the solar cycle, which is great news for aurora photographers around the world. As such, Capture the Atlas’ annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection is particularly vibrant this year, s… Continue reading Powerful solar storms dazzle in annual aurora photography gallery
Sustained radio emissions originating from high over a sunspot are getting researchers thinking in new directions. Unlike solar radio bursts — which typically last only minutes or hours — these …read more Continue reading Radio Emissions Over Sunspots Challenge Models of Stellar Magnetism