Coronal Mass Ejection
Scientists Isolate the Mechanism Behind the Sun’s Most Mysterious Flares
As our civilization increasingly depends on electronic infrastructure, we need to brace for the impacts of space weather.
Canada Will Study How Solar Storms Threaten Our Energy Grid
“Our technology is getting more advanced, so we’re more susceptible to space weather.”
FEMA Is Preparing for a Solar Superstorm That Would Take Down the Grid
The looming threat of extreme space weather has FEMA preparing for the perfect solar storm, and an unimaginable power grid disaster, FOIA documents reveal.
Turns Out This Earth-Like Planet Is Probably Uninhabitable
Kepler-438b is one of the most Earth-like exoplanets, but it's victim to coronal mass ejections.
NASA Releases a Year's Worth of Data About the Habitability of Mars
MAVEN gathers data on Mars's atmosphere that could reveal more habitable times on the Red Planet.
Watch The Sun Barf Out an Eight-Million-Mile Plasma Jet
The ejection spanned a length 33 times that of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
The Coronal Mass Ejection Was An Afterthought: Giant Comet Hits the Sun
The "Solar and Heliospheric Observatory":http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/ watched as a fairly bright comet plummeted towards the Sun, May 10-11, 2011. The comet, probably part of the "Kreutz family of comets":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...