solar storm

  • Something Weird And Amazing Is Happening At Jupiter’s North Pole

    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…


  • The Earth Was Almost Fried Back In 2012

    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…