Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
There are trillions of charged particles—protons and electrons, the basic building blocks of matter—whizzing around above ...
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The Solar Flare That Could Send Us Back to the Stone Age
Introduction to Solar Flares Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's ...
Flickering, invisible space loops may help predict solar flares
It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...
‘Chirps from deep space’: NASA spots mysterious signals 165,000 km from earth
NASA detects mysterious 'chirping' signals, or chorus waves, 165,000 km from Earth, revealing surprising energy transfer in ...
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Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
The discovery of these high-radiation regions is not only an interesting ... Many scientists believe that a type of electromagnetic wave known as “chorus” can knock these electrons out of ...