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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 ...
From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...
Here’s where the northern lights could be visible this weekend, the last time they were seen in Florida and how to find aurora borealis livestreams.
Scientists are keeping a close eye on the sun. We know that the sun goes through cycles of activity, and 2025 is expected to be a time when the sun is very active. This means more sunspots and big ...
Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation from this flare caused a shortwave radio blackout. A map released by the ...
An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the ...
NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation from the Sun, and X-class flares are the strongest among them. An X1.2 flare, like the one recorded, is over ten times more intense than an M1-class ...
A powerful solar flare caused radio blackouts in North America; a CME may graze Earth on June 18, possibly sparking auroras.
Watch a powerful X1.2 solar flare erupt from the sun, causing radio blackouts over Hawaii. More flares from unstable sunspot 4114 may follow.
Another X-class solar flare triggers US communication blackouts as the sun continues to emit intense solar flares during the solar maximum.