A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption.
Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets ...
A new time-lapse reveals the Sun’s inner corona glowing a faint yellow, offering a rare look at the hottest layer of our star’s atmosphere. The footage was created using images from the ASPIICS ...
Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...
On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange press release. “Please be advised that there is significant solar flare and space weather activity,” it read. The company, a maker of tractors ...