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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Saturday, October 31st, 2020
Part of my upcoming new section 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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