The sun's complex surface activity goes through an 11-year cycle that produces greater and lesser numbers of the huge magnetic storms called sunspots.
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Using Stewart s times, the magnetic storm associated with the Carrington Super Flare took 17 hours and 45 minutes to reach the Earth.
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Some evidence suggests that pigeons can be disrupted on their course by extreme magnetic storms, disturbances in the atmosphere caused by solar flares.
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His father took him to find assistance at Marbule, but Serge's boat blew off course due to a raging magnetic storm caused by Schala.
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The station has dropped about seven kilometers ( 4 . 3 miles ) over the past week due to strong magnetic storms, Lyndin said.
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In 1989, a huge solar-induced magnetic storm played havoc with the Earth's ionosphere and shut down the power grid serving Canada's province of Quebec.
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Magnetic storms rage across its surface, sunspots erupt like acne and clouds of electrically charged particles fly outward at 2 million miles per hour.
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The resulting solar magnetic storm is the most powerful seen since the last solar maximum in 1989, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Experts also have had to rethink some of the fundamental tenets about the nature of the magnetic storms and radiation currents that gird the planet.
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The quality of its light, and its occurrence while a great magnetic storm and a bright aurora were in progress, seem to establish its auroral origin.
