#solarstorm — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #solarstorm, aggregated by home.social.
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"A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars
The massive eruption threw GPS readings off by more than 33 feet (10 meters).
On November 11, 2025, the Sun unleashed a series of solar flares that struck Earth, triggering a severe geomagnetic storm that peaked for around six hours. The event triggered beautiful auroras across the skies, but it also wreaked havoc on crucial technology we rely on for our daily lives.
In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists measured the disruption to global navigation systems caused by the geomagnetic storm. The results revealed significant positioning errors, large enough to mess with precision agriculture and autonomous vehicles across the U.S."
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"A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars
The massive eruption threw GPS readings off by more than 33 feet (10 meters).
On November 11, 2025, the Sun unleashed a series of solar flares that struck Earth, triggering a severe geomagnetic storm that peaked for around six hours. The event triggered beautiful auroras across the skies, but it also wreaked havoc on crucial technology we rely on for our daily lives.
In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists measured the disruption to global navigation systems caused by the geomagnetic storm. The results revealed significant positioning errors, large enough to mess with precision agriculture and autonomous vehicles across the U.S."
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"A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars
The massive eruption threw GPS readings off by more than 33 feet (10 meters).
On November 11, 2025, the Sun unleashed a series of solar flares that struck Earth, triggering a severe geomagnetic storm that peaked for around six hours. The event triggered beautiful auroras across the skies, but it also wreaked havoc on crucial technology we rely on for our daily lives.
In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists measured the disruption to global navigation systems caused by the geomagnetic storm. The results revealed significant positioning errors, large enough to mess with precision agriculture and autonomous vehicles across the U.S."
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"A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars
The massive eruption threw GPS readings off by more than 33 feet (10 meters).
On November 11, 2025, the Sun unleashed a series of solar flares that struck Earth, triggering a severe geomagnetic storm that peaked for around six hours. The event triggered beautiful auroras across the skies, but it also wreaked havoc on crucial technology we rely on for our daily lives.
In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a team of scientists measured the disruption to global navigation systems caused by the geomagnetic storm. The results revealed significant positioning errors, large enough to mess with precision agriculture and autonomous vehicles across the U.S."
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A Massive Solar Storm Could Paralyze the US Grid—Here Is Where the Danger Lies
Full story 👇
Learn more: https://www.earthinsider.in/2026/09/solar-storm-power-grid-vulnerabilities.html
#EarthInsider #EarthInsiderNews #EINews #US #America #USNews #SolarStorm #PowerGrid #SpaceWeather #Infrastructure #BreakingNews #TopStory
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Well, its an #AmateurRadio contest weekend and as it has been most of the U.S. summer, another #Solarstorm is headed toward Earth. #SpaceWeather #SpaceWX may play havoc with the #HamRadio #hfbands for the World Wide DIgi #DX Contest
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Due to #SpaceWeather #Spacewx #SolarStorm I rolled Snake Eyes for this morning's #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #POTA #parksontheair activation. Decided to partake of some afternoon #SSTV action. When one mode fails try another.
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In February 1204, the Japanese court poet Fujiwara no Teika recorded in his diary that a terrifying "red vapor" and glowing red light filled the night sky over Kyoto for three consecutive nights.
Eight centuries later, scientists analyzed carbon-14 spikes in ancient tree rings and confirmed he had witnessed a massive, historic solar storm.
The red skies were a severe, low-latitude aurora borealis triggered by powerful coronal mass ejections. A solar storm of that magnitude today would have fried every satellite, GPS system, and global power grid on Earth.
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Tree Rings and Starlight: Tracing the Solar Tempest of Antiquity
How do scientists use tree rings to find ancient solar storms? Learn how researchers linked old poetry to solar events between 753 and 509 BCE.
#science, #history, #treerings, #solarstorm, #archaeology
https://newsletter.tf/tree-rings-show-ancient-solar-storms-753-509-bce/
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Scientists found evidence of a huge solar storm in old tree rings. This is the first time they have linked nature's data to ancient poems about red skies.
#science, #history, #treerings, #solarstorm, #archaeology
https://newsletter.tf/tree-rings-show-ancient-solar-storms-753-509-bce/ -
Could a powerful geomagnetic storm be the reason 8,000 Victorian homes suddenly lost power in January this year?
I had a chat with Dr Richard Marshall from Australian Bureau of Meteorology Space Weather about the origin of solar storms and the risks they present to our communities and critical infrastructure.
So great to be able to have such fantastic and professional insights about these important events and how we, as a society, need to mitigate against them.
https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/earthly-impacts-solar-storms
📸 NASA SVS
#SpaceAustralia #SolarStorm #geomagneticstorm #Astrodon #heliophysics
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The G4 geomagnetic storm is having an effect on the New Zealand power grid. Transpower have issued a Grid Emergency Notice and have taken lines and transformers in Southland out of service.
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If you have issues today on the #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #HFbands, BLAME HER! #Solarcycle25 #SolarStorms #SolarStorm #Geomagneticstorm #SpaceWeather #Spacewx
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14,000 Years Ago, The Most Powerful Solar Storm Ever Recorded Hit Earth - This Event Establishes A New Worst-Case Scenario
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https://www.space.com/astronomy/sun/14-000-years-ago-the-most-powerful-solar-storm-ever-recorded-hit-earth-this-event-establishes-a-new-worst-case-scenario <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119383 <-- shared paper
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“A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its surrounding space today..."
#spaceweather #prehistoric #extremesolarparticleevents #CCMSOCOL #14CEx #Radiocarbon #GlacialEpoch #solarstorm #infrastructure #risk #hazard #radiocarbon #IceAge #model #modeling #glacial #climate #geomagnetism #magnetic #protons #carbon14 #Quaternary #geology #treerings -
I had a blast on 20 meters with this #FT8 #POTA #parksontheair activation under iffy #solar conditions #solarstorm with my @qrplabs #QDX @TalentCelltech Battery, #Panasonic FZ-G1 #Toughpad and #diy #EFHW @POTAspots #amateurradio #hamradio #digitalradio
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A massive solar storm hit the Earth 14,300 years ago, leaving traces in tree rings. The storm was 10 times stronger than any recorded in modern history and could have caused widespread auroras and geomagnetic disturbances. The storm could also provide clues to the origin and frequency of such events, which could threaten modern technology. #SolarStorm #TreeRings #History https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/solar-storm-earth-tree-rings-apocolypse-impact-of-solar-storms/articleshow/104283176.cms
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A #radiocarbon spike at 14 300 cal yr BP in subfossil trees provides the impulse response function of the global carbon cycle during the Late Glacial: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2022.0206 -> Researchers identify largest ever #SolarStorm in #TreeRings: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/news/article/5427/researchers-identify-largest-ever-solar-storm-in-tree-rings