Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...

Every two seconds, the camera on board Solar Orbiter is able to freeze the corona on another frame, and in this rare data set, it has captured the early, quiet failures that can build into a major ...

Forecasters at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center monitored a solar flare lasting for hours on Sunday. The Coronal Mass ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

NASA explained that the flare was classified as an X1.9 flare. X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar flares. The number 1.9 shows how strong the flare was within this highest category.

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 sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

This was the view as a multi-colored curtain of aurora formed to the south in my sky during the great display of Northern Lights on May 10, 2024. The Kp Index peaked at 8 this night bringing the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A spot on the sun 10 times larger than Earth has been seen ...

Forecasters at NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center monitored a solar flare lasting for hours on Sunday. The Coronal Mass Ejection that came with it could produce aurora for northern states and ...