Solar Flare; Sun; Northern Lights; Space Exploration; Space Probes; NASA; Astronomy; Space Missions

Local weather alerts are familiar warnings for potentially dangerous conditions, but an alert that puts all of Earth on warning is rare. On May 31, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) space-based instrumentation captured real-time observations of a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that erupted from the Sun initiating a “severeContinue Reading