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 ...
Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...
Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all previously recorded solar flares pale in ... diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ...
Now, using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, ... At the start of this new year, we look back at close-up pictures and solar flare data recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission over the last ...
The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...
The event, wh... NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has revealed a potential breakthrough in predicting solar flares. Scientists observed brightness fluctuations in coronal loops—plasma ...
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 ...
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... Yusef-Zadeh likens the event to a solar flare. "It's similar to how the sun's magnetic field gathers together, compresses and then erupts ...
NASA and other agencies observed six of the largest X-class solar flares erupting between May 8 and 10. These flares released high-energy particles that caused a severe disturbance to Earth's ...