The sun appears to have woken from its slumber with an impulsive X-class solar flare, the most powerful class of solar flare. The dramatic eruption originated from sunspot region 3912, reaching ...

The sun is having quite a week. Our nearest star has shot out three powerful solar flares in the past two days, sending bursts of hot plasma into the solar system, on a possible collision course ...

A severe geomagnetic storm caused the Northern Lights to appear over an area of Europe and the U.S. as a satellite detected an explosive solar flare.

The X-class flare from December 8 was not just an isolated event but was followed by a coronal mass ejection (CME), a massive eruption of solar plasma and magnetic fields.

Recent solar flares, originating from sunspot AR4087, have triggered widespread radio blackouts and raised concerns about Earth's vulnerability to space weather. A FEMA-led drill simulating a ...

and also how solar flares accelerate a small fraction of charged particles to near-relativistic speeds. "Through the SwRI-led Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, scientists made the first direct ...

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The gravity of this solar explosion reached such a point that, although nothing happened and there were no problems in telecommunications, it could have caused temporary interruptions of radio ...

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