Medicine & TechnologyThis weekend, a beautiful aurora, often known as the northern lights, might be visible in several northern states as Earth is expected to be hit by a "strong" geomagnetic storm.
The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently posted on Twitter two views of the Sun as it fired off a major solar flare.
The new 11-year solar cycle of the Sun began in December 2019, which features a number of sunspots and eruptions like the one recently recorded on the Sun's surface facing away from Earth.
Solar storms from the sun have the ability to damage Earth's electronics, prompting experts to issue a warning about the "extreme" threat that might come from space.
NASA astronomers may have found a young version of the Solar System's Sun in a nearby star. It has the same mass, radius, and temperature when the Sun was only 600 to 700 million years old.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a rare video of CMEs in heavy ultraviolet light emitted from the Sun's coronal region. The 'awesome star' video shows billions of hypersonic particles ejected out into space.
Some people worry that a gigantic "killer solar flare" could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth. But these are not powerful enough to physically destroy Earth.
Scientists reveal that on June 2nd approximately 1300 UHT, a coronal mass ejection originating from the sun on May 28th brushed on the Earth's atmosphere. The minimal impact wasn't enough to cause damage or alter the solar wind speed circumnavigating the planet.
Proxima Centauri — the nearest star next to our own — produced one of the most powerful flares on record. It could change the way scientists think about its habitability.