solar flare

What happens to NASA satellites after their useful life is complete? One NASA satellite that saw solar flares and helped scientists understand the sun’s powerful bursts of energy fell to Earth this week, approximately 21 years after launch.…

The Carrington Event of 1859 that disrupted telegraph communications globally is both the world’s best known solar flare and continues to hold the record for the largest observed solar flare. But as we become more dependent on satellite…