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Planetary Sciences 6 hours ago

Strong solar storm could disrupt communications and produce northern lights in US

An unusually strong solar storm headed toward Earth could produce northern lights in the U.S. this weekend and potentially disrupt power and communications.

Astronomy May 9, 2024

Where space weather starts: Self-consistent propagation of flux ropes in realistic coronal simulations

The effects of space weather extend out across our entire solar system, but this is a simulation of where everything starts: the sudden, violent, emergence of a "flux rope" out of the sun's magnetic field and into the solar ...