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

There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of ...

An M3-class solar flare that lasted about 3 hours created a massive coronal mass ejection. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the fireworks ...

"These events are so massive they kinda smack you in the face," he said. However, we cannot see them all, McIntosh added. For starters, we can only properly see solar flares on the side of the sun ...

New study reveals the potential for advance warning of powerful solar flares from the Sun, providing crucial hours to protect ...

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 ...

Where there's a flare, there's likely to be a CME, just like where there's smoke there's fire. CMEs physically throw solar material out into space, in the form of huge jets or splashes of charged ...

Sudden changes in the configuration of a sunspot’s magnetic field, called a magnetic reconnection, can release a huge amount of energy, causing a solar flare. But scientists are still trying to ...