The M-class flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection currently forecast to land Earth with a glancing blow on June 18 ...

Sunspot region 4114 has fired off its strongest blast yet — an X1.2-class solar flare that erupted on June 17, triggering ...

Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation from this flare caused a shortwave radio blackout. A map released by the ...

The sun has been rather quiet of late but has since roared back to life with a major X-class solar flare eruption, the most powerful class of solar flare. The intense solar flare originated from ...

Massive solar flare erupts from sun, may bring northern lights to New England 01:11. BOSTON - Just after noon Thursday, a massive solar flare erupted on the surface of the sun.

Watch a wild ‘failed eruption’ solar flare. NASA video shows how the sun’s gravitational pull is often too strong to escape. By Andrew Paul. Published Jun 4, 2024 11:11 AM EDT.

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has detected the strongest solar eruption of the current sunspot cycle. The solar flare was rated at X9.0 strength.

The largest flare of the solar cycle on our side of the sun was an X8.9 flare, which occurred on May 14—the most powerful since 2005 at the time.. Solar flares are classed into five main ...

What is a solar flare? Solar flares are caused by the Sun’s magnetic fields, which are strongest in the dark areas called sunspots. When inactive, these fields look like loops. However, when the ...

Solar flares are ranked on a scale from A to X, ... The higher the number, the stronger the flare — and Tuesday’s X2.7 eruption was enough to light up solar observatories around the world.

The X14-class solar flare, which erupted from the opposite side of the sun, ... Solar Flare Eruption Breaks Records for Sun's Current Cycle. Published Jul 26, 2024 at 2:21 PM EDT. By .