Researchers find planet-sized space weather explosions at Venus
Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant explosions, called hot flow anomalies, can be so large at Venus that they're bigger than the entire planet and they can happen multiple times a day.