The colorful northern lights may reveal themselves to a wide swath of Americans Friday night due to an impending solar storm ...
Another display of the northern lights could be visible this weekend in several U.S. states following a severe solar storm.
The colorful northern lights may reveal themselves to South Dakotans Friday night due to an impending solar storm forecast to ...
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and NASA satellites have been monitoring recent activity of strong solar flares, which originate from sunspot regions. “A flurry of activity ...
World Weather, Inc. has used the 11-year and 22-year solar cycle as a leading tool in the prediction of general weather ...
Astronomers modeled sunspot activity on a nearby red giant star to learn about its chaotic interior. Sunspots, which are temporarily darkened areas on the surface of the sun, are the result of ...
While exact levels of solar activity cannot be predicted, high sunspot numbers are anticipated, along with a higher likelihood of large solar flares and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
Scientists measure the sun’s activity by counting the dark sunspots that mar its surface. Each sunspot is home to a smaller magnetic field—although sunspots themselves are often the size of Earth.