Why Earthlings are safe when huge solar storms strike our planet
When solar storms and coronal mass ejections hit Earth and create the Northern Lights, people are physically protected from radiation by Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.
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When solar storms and coronal mass ejections hit Earth and create the Northern Lights, people are physically protected from radiation by Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.
Sten Odenwald, with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team, joined WTOP's Shawn Anderson and Anne Kramer to help shed some light on what to expect during…
NASA's Parker Solar Probe recently flew through the sun's atmosphere and captured footage of vortex-like structures created by a coronal mass ejection, or CME.
The U.S. weather satellite GOES-East has captured solar flares erupting from the sun's surface. The sun has entered an active state, producing energetic bursts of light from our star.
The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured recent activity on the sun's surface, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The sun is in an active state.