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IFLScience The Big Questions: What Is Space Weather And How Does It Affect Us?

Tune in to hear what these incredible space weather events sound like.

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Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

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IFLScience The Big Questions: What Is Space Weather And How Does It Affect Us?

Hard to forecast and a little more far-reaching than a light rain shower, what is space weather? 

Image credit: Lukasz Pawel Szczepanski/Shutterstock.com, modified by IFLScience

The Sun shapes what goes on in space around our planet. Plasma from our star is continuously thrown at Earth in the form of solar winds or coronal mass ejections, changing the shape of the magnetic field, and affecting the atmosphere and anything in it, like the satellites that we depend on. These changes are part of what we call space weather.

Host Dr Alfredo Carpineti spoke to Dr Nigel Meredith of the British Antarctic Survey about what space weather actually is and how it affects us. We even have some incredible recordings of what these space weather events sound like!

You can listen to this episode and subscribe to the podcast on all your favorite podcast apps: Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, Podbean, Amazon Music, and more. A transcript of the conversation is available here.

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDAugust 18, 2023

Written by Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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