Sunspot AR3256 erupted with an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO | edited by Stev ...
Solar material is gusting out of the dark patch in the Sun's corona towards Earth at more than a million miles per hour.
According to the monitoring data, following the flare, the level of impact of solar X-ray bursts on the Earth's ionosphere increased to the R1 (weak) level, on a five-point scale topping out at R5, or ...
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the ...
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...