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

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

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, ...

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.

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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.

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.