GPS positions were off by up to 230 feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May 2024 in a disruption that lasted for up to two days, a new study has revealed.
Sunspot region 4114 has done it again! This time unleashing a colossal X1.9 solar flare.
The prolific flare factory doesn't look like stopping anytime soon.
The M-class flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection currently forecast to land Earth with a glancing blow on June 18.
"These first images are astonishing, but the best is still yet to come."
The Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first look at the south pole of the sun, revealing messy magnetic fields and particles being ejected at high speeds.
The sharpest images ever captured of the sun reveal intricate magnetic structures dancing across its surface.
Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun's corona in astonishing clarity.
Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.
'I think it is quite clear that space weather was not the cause of the dramatic power outage in Spain recently'
