magnetic storm

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Colorful auroras appeared around Japan's Honshu and Hokkaido islands on May 11, 2024, sparked by an intense magnetic storm.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

One day last week a violent "magnetic storm" or disturbance of the earth's magnetic field broke out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Striking the upper levels of the earth's atmosphere, they excited oxygen and nitrogen atoms into luminescence, also set off a magnetic storm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Associated with the current high sunspot activity, the magnetic storm caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to go haywire.

From Time Magazine Archive

From August 28 to September 4, 1859, a magnetic storm of unparalleled intensity, extent, and duration was in progress over the entire globe.

From Curiosities of the Sky by Serviss, Garrett Putman