The sun has released several powerful M- and X-class solar flares over the past few days, resulting in radio blackouts around ...

The plasma can be seen billowing into space along the sun's magnetic field lines. Image of the sun in ultraviolet light. The plasma can be seen billowing into space along the sun's magnetic field ...

Scientists have developed a new computer model to explore the the interstellar medium, in turn generating stunning images ...

On 14 May 2025, the Sun erupted with the biggest flare we've seen all year. From the eastern limb of the Sun – that is, the left side – active sunspot region (AR) 4087 erupted in a huge, X2.7 solar ...

Typically, convection helps move heat from inside the sun to the solar surface, but this process becomes disrupted when charged particles are forced to follow the magnetic field lines clustering ...

This map, showing the line-of-sight direction of the sun's magnetic field, is also called a magnetogram. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / PHI Team CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO In the third image—the velocity ma ...

so the sun's magnetic fields get twisted up over time. Eventually, the field lines snap back into alignment, which we call recombination. It's like snapping a rubber band, and it releases lots of ...