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Spot-free sun: Is that normal?
For the past few years, astronomers and scientists have been looking up at a sun that is, more often than not, rather blank. Almost too blank. That is, the sun has been relatively free of the dark...
View ArticleThe long road to understanding our star
The earliest written records of sunspots date back to 165 B.C. in China, but human understanding of the sun didn’t begin making leaps forward until the early 1600s, shortly after the invention of the...
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Amateur radio users help scientists study space weather
F5VIH. KM3T. PY1NB. These strings of letters and numbers aren’t license plate numbers but call signs. They belong to a handful of Ham radio operators, just three of the more than 2 million amateur...
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Comment: Who should be worried about space weather
If a severe solar storm were headed toward Earth, should you worry? And to whom should you turn for reliable information?25 Jul 2015
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Comment: Weathering a perfect storm from space
Severe space-weather events have happened in the past, and they’ll happen again in the future. Will we be prepared? 15 Feb 2016
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Down to Earth With: Solar physicist Thomas Berger
Growing up in California during the Space Race, Thomas Berger was fascinated with aeronautics and aviation, so when he arrived at the University of California at Berkeley, physics seemed like the...
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Benchmarks: May 23, 1967: Space weather forecasters avert war
In spring 1967, international political tensions were high. The United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the space race, as well as a nuclear arms race. The Cuban Missile Crisis, less than...
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Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic...
Sixty years ago this month, a fleet of nine U.S. Navy ships with 4,500 people aboard maneuvered into the Atlantic. Eight of these ships continued to the South Atlantic, about 1,800 kilometers southwest...
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