Direct from NASA — meet our Magnetosphere! Ever see that movie with Nick Cage called Knowing? Earth's magnetosphere is the main premise of that movie, and its failure is the cause of the world's destruction. It's not really that good when you realize that the aliens came to save the planet, which really turns the [...]
Read More CME, coronal mass ejection, magnetosphereAt the beginning of March 2012, we had a few days' worth of pretty major solar activity — does anyone remember this? This storm produced some pretty incredible Auroras Borealis and Australis for days before and after the big CME from the Sun. CME means coronal mass ejection, which is a huge burst of solar [...]
Read More Astrology, aurora australis, aurora borealis, CME, coronal mass ejection, Dark Rift, Knowing, Milky Way, NASA, Nicolas Cage, solar flare, space weather