If you're still yet to witness the Northern Lights, tonight could finally be your night.  The Northern Lights are set to shine across large parts of the UK tonight as a coronal mass ejection strikes ...

A strong solar storm is headed to Earth and this could cause colorful aurora displays in parts of the United States.

In magnetic reconnection, adjacent magnetic field lines break and snap together to form new lines. This process converts magnetic energy to both thermal energy, or heat, and kinetic energy, or the ...

Over the past year, social media has been occasionally awash with snaps of dazzling pink and green light shows, as rare ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule ...

This comment is being written ahead of the normal Friday deadline for printing the Sunday Island due to the forthcoming... Thursday 10th April, 2025 President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s letter to US ...

SJB Colombo District MP Mujibur Rahuman launched a fierce critique of the political hypocrisy surrounding the Batalanda Commission report during... The country’s education system is facing a severe ...

About this data The population of Magnetic Island in 2011 was 39 people. By 2016 the population was 28 showing a population decline of 28.2% in the area during that time. The predominant age group in ...

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