Massive Solar Storm Removed Earth’s ‘Tail’ and Gave It Wings Instead
NASA Space Technology An overwhelming solar burst from the Sun hit the Earth hard enough to change its entire magnetic field, researchers have found.Astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center detected an explosion originating from April 2023 that disturbed its natural magnetosphere for two hours.Similar to a supersonic jet being pelted by intense high-speed winds, Earth is perpetually bombarded by a stream of charged particles from the Sun, known as solar wind.A view of Earth from the Space Shuttle Discovery shows late afternoon sun on the Andes Mountains. NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) observed the Earth to better understand how solar winds reshaped its electromagnetic field...Getty Images Usually, the Earth moves throughout the solar system with a magnetic field shaped like a tail at its nightside during interactions with solar wind. Experts often compare...
