Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...
There were significantly more X-class solar flares in 2024 than any other year for at least three decades. The arrival of ...
Sunspot AR3234 blasted an X2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Credit: NASA/SDO/Helio Viewer | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Mu ...
A Sunspot AR3873 erupted with an X1.8-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks. Footage ...
Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to ...
New study reveals the potential for advance warning of powerful solar flares from the Sun, providing crucial hours to protect ...
In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. The biggest flare of the series, recorded at a M7.3, erupted from sunspot region AR3938 on ...
As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun's surface. These spectacular solar structures, known as coronal ...
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 ...
For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now ...
The sun's most active phase, solar maximum ... experts told Live Science. There were a total of 54 X-class flares in 2024, according to SpaceWeatherLive.com, which maintains the oldest and ...