The flare clocked in at X7.1 – the second most powerful flare of the current solar cycle ... that can be used as a proxy for aurora predictions. It's been a bumper year for auroras so far.
Witness the northern lights in the northern U.S. and Midwest as solar maximum activity enhances aurora visibility.
The sun unleashed a strong X2 solar flare on Sunday; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an alert stating radio blackouts can occur, indicating a slight chance for ...
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 ...
A chance for millions of people to see an aurora this weekend also brings ... The event follows reports of at least seven massive solar flares or earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs ...
People do not need to worry about the solar flare affecting their daily lives, however, according to NICT official Yuki Kubo. Active aurora appeared in Antarctica after gases from solar flares in ...