When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sun is far from quiet. Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare ...
Dick Van Arsdale, a former second-round pick of the Knicks who later became known as the “Original Sun,” has died, the Suns announced Monday on social media. He was 81 years old. No cause of ...
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections could cause serious damage to telecommunications systems, satellites and power grids here on Earth Gayoung Lee A solar flare erupts from the sun on June 20 ...
Our Sun is not a peaceful place. It roils with convection; its magnetic field snaps, finds a connection, snaps again. It unleashes eruptions of energy in the form of violent flares, and plasma in the ...
The sun may produce extremely powerful bursts of radiation more frequently than we thought. Such “superflares” seem to happen as often as once a century, according to a survey of sun-like ...
"Everything about this discovery was surprising." High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 ...