Northern lights view line map for Tuesday, Feb. 25: Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, NASA explains. The harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to ...

AR4048, a still-emerging sunspot that has yet to fully rotate to face Earth, has been crackling with activity, consistently firing off solar flares. Space weather forecasters are closely ...

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...

Solar flares with ratings between X5 and X8.7 impacted Earth in May 2024, allowing the auroras to be seen as far south as Florida and the Caribbean. In 2003, a similarly powerful event, ...

Saturday night’s northern lights display follows “strong” radio blackouts on Friday, an event that NOAA said briefly ...

11, 2024 — Like the Earth, the Sun likely ... Magnetic Field Maps of the Sun's Corona Sep. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough in solar physics by successfully producing ...

Even if the specific monthly peak of the cycle has passed, it doesn't mean solar activity is over. Strong solar activity ...

Some U.S. states could be treated with a northern lights display due a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space ...

If they happen to spray out in Earth’s direction, CMEs can cause geomagnetic storms that damage power systems on the ground or spacecraft in orbit. And solar flare radiation itself can disrupt ...

Credit: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams, helioviewer.org The sun has once again unleashed a powerful solar flare ... have a greater impact on Earth, as AR4046 has now moved ...

This occurs because the solar flare's intense X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation ionize Earth's upper atmosphere, specifically the ionosphere, which is situated between 30 miles (48 km ...