{"id":561944,"date":"2026-07-22T05:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:01:09","slug":"scientists-propose-model-to-protect-earth-from-solar-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561944\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists propose model to protect Earth from solar storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If a massive solar storm capable of wiping out power grids across the U.S. was headed toward Earth, could there be a way to stop it? A group of scientists are trying to find an answer to that question, proposing the creation of a satellite constellation called a StormWall to help shield the Earth from the impact of a solar storm. Brian Walsh, one of the co-designers of the StormWall, joined CBS News to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If a massive solar storm capable of wiping out power grids across the U.S. was headed toward Earth,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[210600,3224,61,60,50866,82,20116,210601],"class_list":["post-561944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-brian-walsh","tag-earth","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-satellite-constellation","tag-science","tag-solar-storm","tag-stormwall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}