Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...
The aurora borealis is back and is expected to be visible in more than 10 states. See which states will have the best views.
On Oct. 3, 2024, an X9 magnitude solar flare — the most powerful of the current cycle — erupted from the sun, launching a CME directly at Earth. (Image credit: NASA/SDO) The effects of the ...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time ...
which was before the sun released the most powerful solar flare ever recorded, in late 2003. Experts had predicted that ...
The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...
In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. The biggest flare of the series, recorded at a M7.3, erupted from sunspot region AR3938 on ...
As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun's surface. These spectacular solar structures, known as coronal ...
The sun is not quite done with 2024. "Analysis is currently underway to determine if there was an associated coronal mass ejection, and any potential impacts," SWPC officials wrote in the update.