It takes a year for the Earth to go around the Sun, and it takes a month for the Moon to go around the Earth. These two orbits sometimes line up perfectly to have the Moon directly between the
International Space Weather Camp The International Space Weather Camp (ISWC) provides an incredible opportunity for students from South Africa, the USA, and Germany to learn about space weather, a relatively new and exciting field involving the study
The mother of all solar storms, the most intense Space Weather event in recorded history, the Carrington event of 1 September 1859, was twice as big as any other solar storm in the last 500 years. The British amateur
A dark filament of a wound-up magnetic field erupted from the Sun's southern hemisphere on 19 September. It is not directly headed for the Earth, and when it arrives on 23 September, it may not have a significant impact
Sunspot group AR2866 is currently in a geo-effective location on the solar disk and has doubled in size in 24 hours from 6 to 7 September. When it came into view on the limb of the Sun on 5
MEDIA RELEASE From the South African National Space Agency For Immediate Release Pretoria, South Africa, 12 March 2021 Space Weather Centre, a new state-of-the-art facility provides aerospace security For immediate release The South African National Space Agency
[caption id="attachment_5271" align="alignleft" width="828"] Learners get hands on exposure to robotics.[/caption] Following the announcement made on 11 January 2021 by President Cyril Ramaphosa, regarding the current adjusted alert level 3 lockdown coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions; the SANSA public tours,
