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In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that ...
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The Fermi Paradox: Solar Flares
Our Sun constantly froths with sunspots and solar flares, many larger than our planet, and yet these are dwarfed by Coronal Mass Ejections, such as the Carrington Event of 1859, which would have wiped ...
Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar ...
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Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, and even pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts." ...
What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused visible auroras all over the world.
Last week, the sun spat out the strongest solar flare of the year so far, a burst of radiation and light that caused brief radio blackouts on the sunlit side of the Earth. Despite its impressive ...
NASA and NOAA are urging operators of critical systems to remain vigilant, with more solar activity expected as AR4087 moves further across the sun's surface.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare–as seen in the bright flash on the right side–on September 10, 2017. The image shows a combination of wavelengths of ...