[BVARC] BLOOMBERG: Solar Storms Are Back, Threatening Power Grids and Satellites

[Mike Lambert]

Solar Storms Are Back, Threatening Power Grids and Satellites
A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth. The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, wasn’t particularly powerful on the space-weather scale, but when it hit the Earth’s magnetic field it triggered the strongest geomagnetic storm seen for years. There wasn’t much disruption this time -- few people probably even knew it happened -- but it served as a reminder the sun has woken from a years-long slumber.

Read in Bloomberg: https://apple.news/AV9Mbj2O-Q9eZWGACf-CW0A

Shared from Apple News<https://www.apple.com/news>


Have a good day,
Mike

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