Carrington event

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Radioactive Traces in Tree Rings Reveal Earth’s History of ‘Radiation Storms’

Benjamin Pope 27/10/2022

In 2012, Fusa Miyake discovered a big spike in...

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Just How Big Can Solar Flares Get, and Are We Ready?

Christopher Crockett, Knowable 20/09/2021

A 21st century repeat of the sort of coronal...

FILE PHOTO: NASA image of a medium-sized (M2) solar flare and a coronal mass ejection (CME) erupting from the same, large active region of the sun

Planet-Sized Sunspot Confirms New Solar Cycle – but Don’t Expect ‘Killer’ Flares

The Wire Staff 10/08/2020

One cluster of sunspots called AR2770 has prompted some...

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Locked in a Meteorite, Memories of How Our Sun Behaved in Its Youth

Mywish Anand 17/05/2019

Meteorites are spacefaring museums preserving physical and chemical information...

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How Earth’s Magnetic Shield Was Breached – and a Telescope in Ooty Tuned in

R. Ramachandran 08/11/2016

Scientists using the GRAPES-3 telescope, which detects and studies...