"Some of the extreme ultraviolet light above active regions flickers erratically for a few hours before a solar flare," ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

New study reveals the potential for advance warning of powerful solar flares from the Sun, providing crucial hours to protect ...

On April 8, 2024, the sun was totally eclipsed by the moon across parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Described as maybe ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can ...

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could ... Scientists captured images showing the ...

STIX captured the location and size of X-rays emitted by solar flares, which are now represented with those blue circles, while the EUI images showcase the sun's outer atmosphere in yellow.

In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three ... This same active show on the sun can be seen in images captured by the National Oceanic and ...

Specialists recorded several precursors of large flares, including a noticeable increase in the background X-ray radiation of the Sun and a rapid increase in the area of solar active centers.

This Christmas Day, the skies may add to the festive cheer with a display of auroras, thanks to a blob of charged particles enroute to deliver a "glancing blow" to our planet following a powerful ...

Now, using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, one team has identified flickering loops in the solar atmosphere, or corona, that seem to signal when the Sun is about to unleash a large flare.