Why space weather?
Aurora borealis © Jean Mouette / IAP-CNRS-Su
By: Caroline Lachowsky
1 min
Why do space meteorology, on which our technological societies are so dependent?
From the Northern Lights, to storms and solar flares, what is playing out in our space environment?
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Delighted to meet you again for a return to school under the sign of the Sun, our star, much more active than we thought! From the fabulous Northern Lights to solar flares and storms, what is happening above our heads, in the high atmospheres of Earth and other planets, in our space environment? What is / will the weather be like in space? Why and how to study space weather? A new discipline all the more essential as our technological societies are more and more dependent on all these cosmic vagaries ...
With
Jean Lilensten
, CNRS researcher, polar aurora specialist and European head of space meteorology for the book
Space Meteorology, live tomorrow with our sun
published by DeBoeck Supérieur
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