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University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing: Which Way Does the Solar Wind Blow?
June 03, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas, June 3 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center issued the following news release on June 3, 2021:

The surface of the sun churns with energy and frequently ejects masses of highly-magnetized plasma towards Earth. Sometimes these ejections are strong enough to crash through the magnetosphere -- the natural magnetic shield that protects the Earth -- damaging satellites or electrical grids. Such space weather events can be cata . . .

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