The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.

The flare, detected by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite, surpassed the power of the one on March 6, 1989, which played a role in disrupting power grids in Canada. How long ...

The CME was caught by the SOHO solar observatory. SOHO. While the x-ray blast from the flare traveled at the speed of light to strike Monday, the material from the companion CME travels slower and ...

More Solar Flares Blast Toward Earth. By ABC News. December 14, 2006, 2:11 PM. ... Several of SOHO's sensors were temporarily overwhelmed by the amount of radiation, engineers said.

The third most powerful solar X-ray flare on record, a remarkable X17.2 category explosion, erupted from sunspot 10486 on Tuesday, 28 October 2003. This is the second largest X-ray flare ever seen ...

DULUTH — Late Tuesday afternoon Feb. 15, one of the cameras on the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) snapped photos of a massive solar eruption in the wake of a powerful flare.

Strongest solar flare of 2025 erupts from sun, sparking radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and the Middle East (video) ... SOHO circles the sun at the Lagrange Point 1, ...

The sun produced a strong solar flare on Sunday that potentially caused radio blackouts. UW-Madison CIMSS/NOAA Sunspots seen in the 3599 region of the sun in an image taken on March 10, 2024. NASA ...

The ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft captured this view of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (bright white streak at right) during a solar eruption on Oct. 9, 2024.

The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.