AvatarRanny EckstromThe sun’s poles are about to flip. It’s awesome — and slightly terrifying.verified_publisherVox - Brian ResnickThe sun is growing feistier. Great news for aurora watchers. Bad news for communication satellites. The sun is getting ready to flip. Every 11 or so years, the sun undergoes an epic transformation: its magnetic poles reverse. Like on Earth, the sun has a magnetic North and a magnetic South. But …
AvatarRanny EckstromMesopotamian Bricks Reveal Anomaly In Earth's Magnetic Field 3,000 Years Agoiflscience.com - Stephen LuntzWhen Mesopotamians inscribed the names of their kings into their bricks, they couldn’t have imagined the custom would illuminate a natural phenomenon …
AvatarRanny EckstromThe Carrington event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. A "Miyake event" would be far worsebigthink.com - Jasna HodžićWe don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future. A …
AvatarRanny EckstromNASA: We'd Have a 30-Minute Warning Before a Killer Solar Storm Hits Earthverified_publisherScienceAlert - ANDY TOMASWICKWe've touched on the hazards of solar storms plenty of times in the past. We've also recently started reporting even more stories involving some sort …
AvatarRanny EckstromMagnetic Fields Used To Explore Doggerland And Other Prehistoric Submerged Sites - Ancient Pagesancientpages.com - AncientPages.comConny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have been researching an area under the North Sea known as Doggerland, which was home to one of the …
AvatarRanny EckstromHold onto your satellites: The sun is about to get a lot stormierverified_publisherPopular Science - Jon KelveySolar activity could increase as the sun reaches its maximum electromagnetic phase in 2025. On Friday, February 17, a part of the sun erupted. A piercingly bright flash of light—a solar flare—shone briefly from the left limb of our star, where it was captured in an ultraviolet image by NASA’s Solar …
