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Earth May Soon Get Early Solar Flare Warnings
Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...
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Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean (video)
The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon.At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar flare ...
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Astronomers spot flares of light near the black hole at the center of our galaxy
“It’s similar to how the Sun’s magnetic field gathers together, compresses, and then erupts a solar flare,” Yusef-Zadeh ... director of the Galactic Center Group at UCLA.
As spring equinox nears, look for the northern lights: We explain why
As the spring equinox approaches, northern lights hunters will scour the skies for breathtaking displays of color.