Frontiers Lecture: Space Weather

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

7 pm

An image of the sun, bright burning swirling orange against a black background, with yellow solar flares exploding from its southern hemisphere.
NASA/SDO
Space weather describes the variations in the space environment between the Sun and Earth.

Unlike the more commonly known weather within our atmosphere, space weather can come in the form of radio blackouts, solar radiation storms, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and geomagnetic storms caused by disturbances from the Sun. 

This Frontiers Lecture will feature Leila Mays, Deputy Director of the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and Elon Olsson, OpenSpace lead for CCMC. Utilizing OpenSpace visualizations in the Hayden Planetarium, they’ll highlight cutting-edge observations that reveal the latest in solar-activity research. 

This program utilizes OpenSpace software supported by NASA under award No NNX16AB93A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

This program utilizes OpenSpace software supported by NASA under award No NNX16AB93A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.