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Feb 2022 A mild solar particle and geomagnetic storm of otherwise little consequence [91] led to the premature reentry and destruction of 40 SpaceX Starlink satellites launched February 3, 2022 due to increased atmospheric drag. [92] 30 April – 12 May 2024 May 2024 solar storms: X1.2(X1.3)-class flares [93] and X4.5-class flare. [94]
An example is the Meeus smoothing formula, [7] with related solar cycles characteristics available in this STCE news item. [8] The start of solar cycle 25 was declared by SIDC on September 15, 2020 as being in December 2019. [9] This makes cycle 24 the only "11-year solar cycle" to have lasted precisely 11 years.
List of solar storms; Aurora, a luminous phenomenon induced by ionization and excitation of constituents of a planet's upper atmosphere; Heliophysics, the scientific study of the Sun and region of space affected by the Sun; Magnetic cloud, a transient disturbance in the solar wind; Solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of sunspot activity
The sun is approaching solar maximum and it's become clear that this solar cycle is more active than what astrophysicists had predicted. ... In February 2022, a geomagnetic storm contributed to 38 ...
On March 10, 1989, a huge solar flare caused a storm that surged the Quebec power grid, which was out of commission for eight long hours on a weekday morning, affecting about 6 million people.
This week, a solar storm caused large explosions of solar plasma and magnetic energy from the surface of the sun into space — an event known as a coronal mass ejection.
Post-eruptive loops in the wake of a solar flare, image taken by the TRACE satellite (photo by NASA). In solar physics, a solar particle event (SPE), also known as a solar energetic particle event or solar radiation storm, [a] [1] is a solar phenomenon which occurs when particles emitted by the Sun, mostly protons, become accelerated either in the Sun's atmosphere during a solar flare or in ...
The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel predicted in December 2019 [11] that solar cycle 25 will be similar to solar cycle 24, with the preceding solar cycle minimum in April 2020 (± 6 months), and the number of sunspots reaching a (smoothed) maximum of 115 in July 2025 (± 8 months).