What Is Space Weather and Why It Matters Space Weather refers to the changing environmental conditions in space driven by the Sun’s activity – including bursts of solar radiation, charged particles, and magnetic disturbances. Just as terrestrial weather can produce hurricanes or blizzards, our Sun generates “solar tempests” like solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs),…
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Space weather refers to variations in the space environment between the Sun and Earth that can affect technological systems both in orbit and on the ground swpc.noaa.gov. It is generated by solar phenomena—particularly solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), high-speed solar wind streams, and solar energetic particle events—that release bursts of radiation and charged particles…
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