Prairie skywatchers have been on high alert the last few nights as spectacular aurora displays have made the night time skies come alive with colour. And they’ve been keen to share their pictures of the event with us. The light show comes courtesy of a coronal mass ejection (CME) by the Sun on November 11th […] Read more
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Solar storm sends field navigation haywire
In the summer of 1859, a British astronomer was investigating what looked like a group of dark specks on the sun when there was a blast of light. The flare he saw lasted five minutes. The effects lasted for two days. Telegraph systems failed so spectacularly that operators got electrical shocks from their machines. Paper […] Read more
