The same massive sunspot responsible for triggering a historic geomagnetic storm on Earth in mid-May triggered a legendary storm for Mars a few days later. On May 20, data from Europe’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft showed that the predicted X12 solar flare was the strongest type. on the glare classification scale – AR3664 exploded from a… Read More »
The solar storms that produced the stunning auroras seen around the world on May 10 also gave Mars whiplash, sparking auroras over the Red Planet and doused the surface with harmful radiation. The main source of solar storms was an active region. AR3664It was a dense knot of magnetic flux on the sun, inhabited by… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will begin investigating the spectacular light shows of solar system giants Uranus and Saturn. Two separate teams of astronomers at the University of Leicester will use the $10 billion space telescope to study auroras on gas giant Saturn and cold ice giant Uranus. The aim will be to explain… Read More »