Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.
The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.
Space weather has seen a flurry of activity this week. An explosive solar flare that erupted Tuesday, just two days after the ...
During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...
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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 ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A powerful X1.9 solar flare from new sunspot AR4299 triggered strong radio blackouts, as giant ...
The world's largest solar telescope just captured the highest-resolution images of a solar flare to date — and they're spectacular. Researchers trained the Hawaii-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar ...
The back-to-back eruptions caused radio blackouts across two hemispheres as the active sunspots turn to face Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.