solar storm
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Something Unearthly Could Switch Train Signals From Red to Green
Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun’s surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme space weather. The Sun is a dynamic star, with stormy outbursts that fling radiation millions of miles into the…
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Something Weird And Amazing Is Happening At Jupiter’s North Pole
If you were soaring through Jupiter’s turbid skies wearing a pair of X-ray goggles, you might get lucky and witness something incredible. Brilliant flashes of light, more luminous and powerful than the Sun, occurring every 26 minutes and stretching as far as the eye can see. That’s the essence of a massive solar storm recently…
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The Earth Was Almost Fried Back In 2012
A massive solar storm in July 2012 was more intense than thought — and it blasted right through the Earth’s orbit. Luckily for us, we were on the other side of the sun, thus missing the chaos completely. But if that storm had hit this beautiful little blue marble in space? “The solar bursts would…