The Sun’s Rain is Shining Light on Solar Mysteries

Medicine & Technology Apr 06, 2019

Scientists examine the Sun’s rain and its changing scientific theory.

What Is It? Solar Storm Clouds Brewing

Sep 17, 2014

In a full-disk view of our very own sun, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory discovered that this morning, Sept. 10, a giant solar storm erupted in the center of the star. Typically non-disruptive, in spite of the high-energy emissions from the fusion/fission reactions that take place on the sun’s outer surface, today’s storm is causing some concern over what affect it might have on us, three planets away from the star.

Solar Storm Causes Aurora Across Northern Skies

Sep 17, 2014

With a giant solar storm erupting just last week, causing cosmic disturbances emanating from the center of the sun, the northern skies have welcomed the arrival of aurora lights. Reaching as far south as New York, the record-breaking Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) of early last week’s solar storm brought with a gust of solar wind, an illuminating spectacle of lights across the sky.