Daisy Dobrijevic joined Space.com in February 2022 having previously worked for our sister publication All About Space magazine as a staff writer. Before joining us, Daisy completed an editorial internship with the BBC Sky at Night Magazine and worked at the National Space Centre in Leicester, U.K.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all ageseteor showers captured during aurora over San Francisco's North Bay as seen from China Camp Beach in San Rafael, California on May 11, 2024.
Lucky stargazers this weekend might be in for a real treat as heightened solar activity has prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a geomagnetic storm watch for Aug. 9 and Aug. 10, coinciding more or less with the peak of theaccording to NOAAGeomagnetic storms are classified by NOAA using a G-scale to measure the intensity of geomagnetic storms. They range from G5, the most extreme class to G1 minor class storms.
The culprits behind the issuance of the recent storm watch are two plumes of plasma and magnetic field known as that erupted from the sun on Aug. 7 and are now barreling toward Earth. The two CMEs are predicted to arrive late on Aug. 9 through Aug. 10, according to NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center'sContact me with news and offers from other Future brands, the impact on auroras depends on the magnetic field alignment within the CME.
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