Around 6 PM (Eastern Time) on December 31st, NASA's observatory noted an explosion from solar spot AR3536. The blast resulted in the sun emitting a powerful solar flare and launching a wave of a ...

Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

One of the most recent, an X3.3 solar flare, was actually captured in an image thanks to NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. These powerful blasts of energy can bring about a ton of beauty and ...

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...

The Corona Is Weirdly Hot: Parker Solar Probe Rules out One Explanation July 30, 2024 — By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's ...

India's Aditya-L1 spacecraft captured detailed observations of a powerful solar flare last year, helping scientists better ...

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, NASA explains. The harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However ...

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The Indian spacecraft Aditya L1 captures stunning images of a powerful solar flare, enhancing our understanding of solar activity.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ultraviolet light before a solar flare, which could act as an early warning ...