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In the scope of the Scientific talks series at Hvar Observatory Zeljko Ivezic from University of Washington, the director of the Vera Rubin Observatory project held a seminar on May 24th 2023 at 17:30 CET in hybrid form. The Vera Rubin Observatory, previously referred to as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical…

A recent study by S. F. Odenwald from NASA/GSFC has shown that smartphone magnetometers can detect geomagnetic storms: “Smartphone magnetometers are being commercially explored for applications as diverse as locating customers in shopping malls for targeted advertising, to precision needle-guided surgery. Meanwhile, Earth’s geomagnetic field, whose measurement forms the basis for precision positing monitoring, varies…

Prof. Eugene N. Parker, a solar physics legend who first proposed the concept of the solar wind and is thus a namesake of the Parker Solar Probe mission passed away on 15 March at the age of 94. His great contributions to the field of solar physics were summarized in the obituary published by the…

European Space Weather Week (ESWW) is the main annual event in the European Space Weather calendar. It is an international meeting organised annually within the European Region in collaboration with prominent members of the European space weather community, such as European Space Agency (ESA). It began as a forum for the European Space Weather community…

In the editorial paper “SpaceX—Sailing Close to the Space Weather?” of the new issue of Space Weather Journal the Editors remarked on the recent SpaceX satellite loss due to geomagnetic storm and lessons to be learned from the event. “The 3 February 2022 launch of 49 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites has provided a fascinating example…