A burst of solar radiation recently threw parts of the aviation world into disarray, grounding and rerouting thousands of flights in a matter of hours. What looked like a routine space-weather alert quickly turned into a global scramble as several Airbus models began showing navigation glitches linked to the solar storm. The incident exposed an unexpected weak spot in modern aviation and raised fresh questions about how well our everyday technology is protected from the Sun’s extremes.
The James Webb Space Telescope, known as Webb, is giving scientists new ways to spot atmospheres like Earth’s on distant planets. Webb looks at faint infrared light. That light can carry the fingerprints of gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane and ozone. These are the same gases that help make Earth habitable.
Why does the Moon glow red instead of disappearing during a total lunar eclipse? The answer lies in Earth’s atmosphere, which bends and filters sunlight, scattering away the blues and leaving behind fiery reds. In this article, discover how eclipses turn the Moon into a cosmic canvas lit by the glow of Earth’s sunsets
