It looks like a warm and beautiful autumn day southwest of Saskatoon, but beyond those puffy white clouds, an electromagnetic storm is raging that we cannot see. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, issued a warning Thursday after a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit […] 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
