Monitoring Solar Activity with SDO
Thursday, August 7, 2014 - 07:01
in Astronomy & Space
At times, the sun erupts, hurling a magnetic superheated cloud of gas toward Earth. Racing at thousands of miles per second, and hundreds of times bigger than the sun, this cloud of solar particles can cause a magnetic storm near Earth, disrupting satellite communications and—in worse case scenarios—overloading power transformers.