A solar flare is an extremely bright flash of radiation. It occurs when magnetic energy associated with a sunspot is suddenly ...

Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.

The perfect mixture of Harry Potter and The Beatles, Cody Fry’s Grammy-nominated cover of “Eleanor Rigby” is cinematic. It ...

A major flare-up affected an aircraft’s data and control; the solution was so easy that it almost makes no sense.

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The Sun fired a staggering X1.9-class solar flare at the turn of the month, triggering a sudden, widespread radio blackout across Australia and large parts of southeast Asia and it seems like another ...

If you’ve ventured onto GymTok, you’re probably familiar with the term “rib flare.” If you haven’t heard of it, a quick search on the app reveals its meaning. Essentially, it refers to when your ...

Over the last 36 hours, the sun has released two more X-class solar flares, providing for more chances of the northern lights this week. On both Sunday morning and Monday morning, the sun released an ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest flare we have ever seen coming from a supermassive black hole. The flare was so powerful it can only have come from a huge star being ripped apart at the centre ...

A solar flare with the Earth for scale. Alexander Russell using open-source SunPy Python package and data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory space telescope via NASA EPIC Team Solar flares—intense ...

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The highest-resolution images of a solar flare captured at the H-alpha wavelength (656.28 nm) ever captured may reshape how we understand the sun's magnetic architecture—and improve space weather ...