Carrington Event

It Takes a Dull Star to Have a Great Party

July 6, 2020

Some people, no matter what the occasion, are always the life of the party. They not only occupy the center of the action, but...

Design

by Hugh Ross Read

Life and Magnetic Field Variations

April 22, 2019

In last week’s blog about Earth’s magnetic field1 I wrote about recent research by three Australian astronomers that demonstrated the possible existence of life...

Biology

by Hugh Ross Read

Earth Protects Life from Dangerous Space Radiation

April 20, 2018

On September 1, 1859, the Sun experienced an unusually large storm that ejected a massive cloud of charged particles. Seventeen hours later, on September...

Geology & Earth

by Jeff Zweerink Read

Bad Flare Days

November 6, 2017

Big solar flares bring spectacular aurora borealis (northern lights). In my days as the director for observations at the Vancouver chapter of the Royal...

Evolution

by Hugh Ross Read