The sun has just unleashed its most powerful solar flare this cycle, a colossal X-class eruption. The X9.05 solar flare peaked at 8:10 a.m. EDT (1210 GMT), triggering shortwave radio blackouts ...

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 ...

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

But while the X1.1 solar flare was one of the most powerful type of flares possible, it wasn't the biggest solar flare of 2024. That title goes to an X9 solar flare on Oct. 3. It was the third ...

But while the X1.1 solar flare was one of the most powerful type of flares possible, it wasn't the biggest solar flare of 2024. That title goes to an X9 solar flare on Oct. 3. It was the third largest ...

This disturbance was the largest of its kind in more than 21 ... Many people were hoping to see a solar flare during the event, and several people thought they did when they spotted large, pink ...

The very strong solar flare came from a region near the Sun's south-centre disc A huge solar flare, the largest since 2017, has been spotted erupting from the Sun’s surface. Solar flares are ...

One of the biggest risks of a solar flare hitting Earth is that it will have a devastating effect on the network of satellites we use to communicate, navigate, and monitor the Earth. Outside the ...

In the final hours of Christmas Day, the sun fired off four solar flares within less than three hours. The biggest flare of the series, recorded at a M7.3, erupted from sunspot region AR3938 on Dec.

While technical systems are expected to experience only moderate effects during the storm, the solar flare that triggered these CMEs caused a brief shortwave radio blackout over parts of Africa ...