aurora lights

Yesterday, March 20, it was reported that the Earth may suffer a glancing blow from an incoming coronal mass ejection (CME) today. While astronomers keep an eye out on its development, a far more concerning development has been spotted on the Sun. The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory has detected a large hole in the Sun's atmosphere which is spewing a stream of solar winds. This solar wind is expected to reach our planet between March 23 and 24, and can cause another powerful solar storm event. Things can worsen if there…

The month of March has already been quite devastating in terms of solar storm events. We have witnessed multiple solar flare eruptions that have caused blackouts in multiple regions. There were also a few solar storms, with the most intense one peaking at a G2-category storm. But in two days' time, things can go much worse for the Earth. The vernal equinox will arrive on March 21. And based on historical data, this is the time of the year when our planet suffers the most powerful solar storms. But why is that? Check…

The North Pole is showing some strange activity which scientists are now calling space hurricanes. This bizarre flurry of lights are thought to be a different kind of solar storm. Check details. While the name ‘space hurricane' sounds like the name of a badly made science fiction movie, it is real and is one of the strangest space weather phenomena scientists have come across. In fact, it is not even fully solved yet. All researchers know for now is that it exists in a very restricted area within the North Pole and it…