The first day of Fall, aka the Autumn Equinox, is on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 8:44 A.M. EDT in the Northern Hemisphere. The equinox is special because this is when the Sun is positioned in the sky so that there is equal day and night—each lasting for 12 hours. After this, the days …
Summer begins on the Summer Solstice when the Earth is tilted the closest to the Sun The summer solstice is Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 4:51 PM EDT – 2051 UTC. It’s the longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere and the first official day of summer. According to Weather.gov, the summer solstice occurs at the …
This wall of plasma is roughly 67,000 miles high-large enough to fit several planets the size of Earth. While this looks like it could be a preview of the new season of Stranger Things, it is a time-lapse composite of real image sets from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. The images are from a coronal mass …
China: In China, people thought a dragon was eating away at the Sun during a solar eclipse. They would shoot arrows at the sky and play drums to try to scare the dragon away. Native America: Suring solar eclipses, some Native American tribes would shoot flaming arrows into the sky in order to reignite the Sun. …
Space weather forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch through Monday, March 25, 2024. A Geomagnetic storm from a solar flare may push northern lights into the United states and disrupt radio communications. This is fairly normal and is no reason for concern. Aurora forecasters at the Geophysical Institute, weather permitting, highly active auroral displays …