A solar storm could cause millions of people across the U.S. to lose power – and it’d take months or years of rebuilding.
- The odds are low that in any given year a storm big enough to cause effects this widespread will happen.
- But it’s a near certainty that some form of this catastrophe will happen someday.
To get ahead of this threat, a loose federation of U.S. and international government agencies, and hundreds of scientists affiliated with those bodies, have begun working on how to make predictions about what our Sun might do.