Category: SUN
Controlled Power Cuts Likely As Sun Storm Threatens National Grid
(Steve Connor)Officials in Britain and the United States are preparing to make controlled power cuts to their national electricity supplies in response to a warning of a possible powerful solar storm hitting the Earth. In an interview with The Independent, Thomas Bogdan, director of the US Space Weather Prediction Centre, said that controlled power “outages” [...]
Sun Unleashes ‘Spectacular’ & Powerful Eruption
( Tariq Malik) The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vastcloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun’s entire surface, NASA scientists say. The solar storm hit its peak at about 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT), but the actual flare extended [...]
