Two powerful solar flares erupted minutes before a nationwide cellular service outage impacted millions of mobile users Thursday morning, and many people on social media quickly theorized that the ...
Scientists have long struggled to accurately predict solar flares, but a recent breakthrough using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has uncovered a promising new sign: flickering coronal loops. These ...
It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...
The Sun emitted three strong solar flares on Dec. 29, peaking at 2:18am, 11:14pm, and 11:31pm ET. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Solar Ultraviolet Imager captured images ...
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...
The sun started 2025 with a bang as it fired off a powerful solar flare this morning. The X-class solar flare peaked at an X1.2 at 6:40 a.m. EST (1140 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 3), releasing a blast of ...
The most powerful flare of the current solar cycle was an X9 magnitude blast on Oct. 3, 2024. But during the last two solar cycles, there have been 14 different X-class flares with a higher ...
2, 1859, when astronomer Richard C. Carrington observed a blast of white light from the sun for about five minutes. It was the most significant solar flare ever recorded, an X45, and later ...