The Data on Civilization-Ending Superflares

Image caption: At 4:51 p.m. EDT, on Monday, April 2, 2001, the sun unleashed the biggest solar flare ever recorded, as observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite. Image credit: SOHO Project, NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center/ NASA Visible Earth. Article by Becky Ferreira. 404 Media: The Abstract – December 14, 2024.

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Welcome back to the Abstract! How are you? Do you feel emotionally stable? Just checking because our main story this week is about the odds that our dear blessed Sun will release a superflare that wipes out global infrastructure—or worse! TW: Heliophysics. […]

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