NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare. See at time-lapse of ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X2.8-class solar flare and a pair of m-flares that preceded it in multiple ...

The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class flare — the ...

More specifically, with the Moon blotting out the main disk of the Sun, we can see details and features in the solar ...

Solar flares measured around X1 — like the May 13 and 14 events — indicate strong flare intensity. An X10 flare is described as as a severe event, according to NOAA.

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at ...

A diagram showing the arrangement of Van Allen radiation belts. (Booyabazooka/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Since these belts are maintained and replenished by solar particles, it's unsurprising ...

The sun released over 50 X-class solar flares in 2024! Here we take a look at some of the best. It's been a busy year on the sun, as it officially entered the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle of ...

Most flares (A-class, B-class, and C-class) are barely distinguishable from the rest of the solar activity going on around them. However, the strongest — M-class and X-class flares — show up ...

The X1.8-class solar flare is shown here, from around 10 p.m. to midnight EDT, on Tuesday, October 8, ... This diagram shows Earth's geomagnetic field vs a CME magnetic field ...

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.