July 3, 2018
Benchmarks: August 27, 1958: Operation Argus creates first anthropogenic space weather
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 …
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April 20, 2017
Benchmarks: May 23, 1967: Space weather forecasters avert war
By Sara Pratt In spring 1967, international political tensions were high. The United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the space race, …
May 9, 2016
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 …
February 5, 2016
Comment: Weathering a perfect storm from space
Extreme space-weather events — intense solar and geomagnetic storms — have occurred in the past: most recently in 1859, 1921 and 1989. So …
July 10, 2015
Comment: Who should be worried about space weather
If you live in hurricane-prone regions, you’re probably familiar with the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale; if you’re in Tornado Alley, you …
June 8, 2015
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 …
December 3, 2012
The 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 …
January 5, 2012
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. …