It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...
Researchers have made a potentially crucial breakthrough in solar science that could help predict solar flares with greater ...
See and hear for yourself how the number of flares and their intensity increase, a clear sign of the sun approaching the peak of the 11-year solar cycle. This video combines ultraviolet images of ...
but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range from A, B, C, M, and X with a zero to nine scale in ...
“While solar flares can affect communication systems, radar, and Global Positioning Systems, based on the intensity of these ...
(Photo by Ross Harried/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Northern Lights forecast is looking up in the wake of a series of several large solar X-ray flares ... The magnetic intensity and speed ...
An image of the sun produced by NASA's Solar ... flares two to six hours ahead of time with 60 to 80 percent accuracy," which is a significant improvement over current methods. The intensity ...