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What are X flares? Can they harm us? - EarthSky

On New Year's Eve 2023, the sun blasted a huge X flare, the biggest of solar cycle 25 so far. It came from sunspot region AR3536 and ...

4 solar flares simultaneously erupt from the sun in rare 'super ...

In the early hours of Tuesday (April 23), quadruple solar flares near-simultaneously exploded from across the sun's surface, and there's a ...

Sun Unleashed Two Big X-Flares As US Suffered Cell Phone Outages

Sunspot AR3590 unleashed X1.8 and X1.7-class solar flares within a few hours of one another. Cell phone outages spiked across the United ...

Largest X-class solar flare of past several years explodes from Sun

Massive solar flares, including what NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center says is the largest ... 7 flare was seen blasting out of the ...

Two Earth-facing sunspots blasting powerful X and M ... - YouTube

Sunspots AR3664 and AR3663 have been erupting with X- and M-class solar flares on May 8, 2024. Both sunspots are Earth-facing and could ...

Our Sun: Facts - NASA Science

When it starts to die, the Sun will expand into a red giant star, becoming so large that it will engulf Mercury and Venus, and possibly Earth as well.

Double-Solar M-Flares Blast Enormous Coronal Mass Ejection

Double Solar M-Flares Blast Massive Coronal Mass Ejection Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/SDO/ESA/SOHO | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

Beyond the aurorae: How solar flares spill out across the Solar System

The storm that hit Earth in May originated from an active region of solar flares and sunspots, bursts of plasma and twisting magnetic fields on ...

The Sun | Natural History Museum

Scientists usually measure the ultraviolet rays, X-rays and gamma-rays coming from the solar flares. These typically show up as bright flashes on the surface of ...

Solar Storm Buffets Earth and Is Likely to Generate Light Show

The Space Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported that the solar particles, which were ...

Statistical relationship between the succeeding solar flares detected ...

gated 155 M- and X-class flare events seen by GOES and SDO/AIA satellites and measured the spatial and temporal expansion of flare areas. His main finding ...

X9 Time-Lapse: Sun Unleashes The Largest Solar Flare Since 2017

Sunspot AR3842 erupted with an X7.1-class solar flare. NASA models predict that the coronal mass ejection created by the flare is Earth ...

Another giant solar explosion follows Tuesday's enormous solar flare

The activity started on Tuesday with a giant solar flare - the second biggest ever seen by SOHO, the ESA-NASA solar observatory that maintains a constant watch ...

The Space Environment

• The solar wind and flares. • Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). • The Van Allen ... Solar Max Spacecraft. Spacecraft with large surface areas, such as solar ...

Northern Lights Forecast: Aurora Borealis may be visible in DC ...

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) said the X9.0 flare was seen blasting from the Sun on Thursday morning. An X flare is the most ...

Major X4.5 solar flare erupts from AR 3825, producing Earth ...

A major solar flare measuring X4.5 erupted from Active Region 3825 at 15:29 UTC on September 14, 2024. The event started at 15:13 and ended ...

“Knowing” How Solar Flares Don't Work – astroengine.com

We could see real movies of intense magnetic activity, and then suddenly the blinding burst of electromagnetic radiation. This flare could be ...

Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) - UCAR Center for Science Education

The blast of a CME carries about a billion tons of material out from the Sun at very high speeds of hundreds of kilometers per second. Two different views of a ...

The sun's activity is peaking sooner than expected - CNN

A medium-size solar flare and a coronal mass ejection erupted from a large active region on July 14, 2017. The coils are particles spiraling ...

Space instrument observes new characteristics of solar flares

Flares are our solar system's largest explosive events and are seen as bright areas on the sun. Their energy can reach Earth's atmosphere ...