Delores Knipp was interviewed for a feature article in the Washington Post.
Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, is an expert on solar wind-geospace coupling and space weather and has written extensively about historic solar storms.
The Washington Post article focuses on an 1872 solar event that painted skies and disrupted electric systems. It also makes clear such events are not as rare as once believed.
Dan Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics on campus and an affiliated faculty member in Smead Aerospace, is also quoted in the piece.
The article follows a recent journal publication in the Astrophysical Journal discussing the storm. Knipp is a co-author of article.