Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...

The sun has been rather quiet of late but has since roared back to life with a major X-class solar flare eruption, the most powerful class of solar flare. The intense solar flare originated from ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named 3856, is facing Earth and has developed a volatile type of magnetic field ...

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's ...

The Sun emitted the strongest solar flare in seven years Thursday, and space weather forecasters are watching to see what impacts this event has on Earth, including displays of the Northern Lights ...

Similar to earthquakes and hurricanes, solar flares are also classified according to their strength with “X” being the strongest and “B-class” the smallest. The scale also includes “C ...

solar surface. The sun produced an X9 solar flare — a sudden and intense burst of radiation — on Oct. 3, the biggest of Solar Cycle 25 so far. Then, in the wake of the resulting aurora across ...

The flare, designated X2.3, belongs to the most intense X class of flares. It was spotted by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is constantly monitoring the surface of the Sun in part to ...

The scale to classify solar flares is similar to the Richter scale - used to rate the magnitude of earthquakes, each letter ...

Parts of the Atlantic Ocean, South America, and Africa had a shortwave radio blackout yesterday at 8:40 am ET (7:10 pm) on November 6 due to a strong solar flare, according to NASA's Solar ...

With our planet's history of close calls, it seems practical these days to get a doomsday bunker, if you can convince someone ...