Social media was shocked at the sight of a red triangle around the moon during totality last Monday, with even mainstream media outlets reporting that a "solar flare" was seen. Over 40 million ...

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. The most powerful solar flare seen in nearly twenty years and the strongest of the current solar cycle erupted from our local ...

Solar flares are violent outbursts of electromagnetic radiation that shoot from the sun when invisible magnetic field lines at the sun's surface get twisted up until they eventually snap. These ...

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are the two ... when solar weather is at its peak intensity. Over the long arc of history, there have been dozens of CMEs that scored a direct hit on ...

The Sun’s activity cycle continues to stir things up, as our star recently unleashed a massive X-class solar flare that was strong enough to cause radio blackouts across the south Pacific.

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...

Millions of Brits celebrating New Year’s tonight could make the event even more special after a powerful solar flare could allow ... ‘A filament eruption (arc of plasma) was observed in ...

Scientists believe they’ve found a potential way to predict solar flares. Using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, a team has identified early warning signs of solar flares. This could protect ...

My research interests are solar and stellar astrophysics with a specialization in spectroscopy of optical and ultraviolet emission in stellar flares. I use state-of ... and the APO ARC 3.5m) to ...