Michigan Engineering | University of Michigan Around 8 pm on Jan. 16, people across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio witnessed a meteor exploding in Earth’s atmosphere.
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Meteor over Michigan: How dangerous are space hazards like bolides?
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CLASP celebrates 2017 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture
Professor Margaret Kivelson’s lecture titled, “Magnetic Structures in the Solar System” was followed by a conversation with daughter U-M Professor Valerie A. Kivelson.
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Solar storm: U-M model’s predictions ‘a remarkable achievement’
A space weather tool Michigan Engineers developed was used to produce animations that show predictions of how the recent storm would distort Earth’s magnetic field.
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Airborne nuclear tests can mimic solar storms
Humans can influence space weather.
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Solar storms: Regional forecasts now possible
Researchers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have developed a new tool to help forecast solar storms and their effects on the power grid and communication satellites.
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Lights Out
The power goes out. The aurorae stretch to the tropics. Could a major solar storm mean a year without electricity?
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Lecture offers a planetary scientist’s tour through the solar system
The son of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, Tamas Gombosi took an unlikely path to his post as an eminent space scientist at U-M.
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