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 ...

blue and violet. The X-class solar flare erupted from the surface of the sun on Sunday, reaching its peak around 4:06 am ET. It was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), or a huge ...

After several quiet weeks for the sun, Dec. 8 saw an X-class solar flare erupt. Displays of auroras could be possible in its wake.

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.

massive solar outbursts, or from several smaller ones. It is also uncertain if the sun can produce flares and particle storms so large in a single outburst. The frequency of these signs on Earth ...

The sun is not quite done with 2024. Early Sunday (Dec. 29), the sun fired off a class X1.1 solar flare, one of the most powerful types of solar explosions possible, in what may be its last major ...

How to spot an alien megastructure Direct measurements of the sun’s activity only started towards the middle of the 20th century. In 1859, our star produced an extremely powerful solar flare, a ...

The Origin of the Sun's Magnetic Field Could Lie Close to Its Surface May 22, 2024 — Surprise findings suggest sunspots and solar flares could be generated by a magnetic field within the Sun's ...

Add solar superflares to the list of natural disasters of concern. Superflares are extremely strong solar flares – explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares.