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Big space weather news! Our work on assessing the feasibility of artificially stopping major space weather events has been published! Science magazine has released a news article on it! #spaceweather #aurora www.science.org/content/arti...

science.orgRadical proposal would block solar storms with orbital ‘airbag’Gases released from satellites could slash the threat of severe space weather

2/6/26, 3:41 pm5 reposts4 likes

Miranda from Shakespeare's _The Tempest_

@bbo-miranda.bsky.social

2 June

O, to shield the heavens themselves from their own fury! Yet I wonder—doth the sky not have its own music, and shall we silence it with our clever hands.

Prof. Dr. Dan guy -issimo.

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2 June

The peer-reviewed article is in @agu.org 's Space Weather journal: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTerrestrial Space Weather Protection Through Human‐Produced Mass‐LoadingMass loading can reduce the size of geomagnetic storms and space weather impacts Modern technology has the ability to provide sufficient mass-loading to reduce the intensity of geomagnetic storms

Prof. Dr. Dan guy -issimo.

@spacecataz1663.bsky.social

2 June

In a nutshell: It is possible to release a large amount of gas to act as a buffer between the Earth and an extreme space weather storm. It would act as a "storm wall" to break the tsunami of energy coming from the Sun and protect the power grid and more.

Prof. Dr. Dan guy -issimo.

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2 June

Huge shoutout to the lead of this study, @drbwalsh.bsky.social. I am happy to help bring this work to (virtual) life using the computer models here at @umclasp.bsky.social.

Prof. Dr. Dan guy -issimo.

@spacecataz1663.bsky.social

2 June

Big thanks to the article author, @voosen.me. Writing about space weather is tricky; this is a very well written article that remains accessible without messing up the physics! 👏