Archive for the ‘Space Weather’ Category
Monday, September 23rd, 2024
On August 23, 2024, the count of sunspots on our Sun reached a 20 year high, during the peak in solar cycle 23. The Space Weather web site highlighted this phenomenon with images of the Sun. If you look at the Daily Sun area in the left hand margin, you ...
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Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Part of my upcoming new category on Solar Dynamics and Space Weather:
The Carrington event of September 1st, 1859 - from spaceweather.com
"On Sept. 1st, 1859, the most ferocious solar storm in recorded history engulfed our planet. It was “the Carrington Event,” named after British scientist Richard Carrington, who witnessed ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2021
If you appreciate some nice sunshine, you might also be interested in how our solar system's central star behaves over the short term. We refer to these solar cycles to describe the periodic and repeating characteristics of our sun. The changes taking place in our sun repeat over time in ...
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