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Slip-Sliding Away: Solar Flare’s Magnetic Lines Go For A Loop In This Video
When will the next big solar flare occur? How much damage could it cause to power lines and satellites? These…
Yesterday’s Mammoth Solar Flare Is The Biggest Of 2014 So Far
She's a rainbow! You can see the first moments of a huge flare belching off the sun in the picture…
A Secret Solar Eclipse from Outer Space
Call it the eclipse nobody saw. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) got its own private solar eclipse showing from its…
Zombie ISON ‘Behaving Like A Comet’, Stunned Astronomers Say
Talk about the Comeback Kid. After Comet C/2012 S1 ISON rounded the sun yesterday afternoon, professional astronomers around the world looked…
This Energy-Boosting Region In The Sun Will Have A New NASA Satellite Watching It
How does the sun's energy flow? Despite the fact that we live relatively close (93 million miles, or eight light-minutes)…
Yet Another X-Class Flare From AR 1748
Last night, as Commander Hadfield and the Expedition 35 crew were returning to Earth in their Soyuz spacecraft, the Sun…
The Sun Doesn’t Cause Earthquakes
If that title seems like an obvious statement to you, it's ok... it seems pretty obvious to me too. But…
AR1654 is a Monster Sunspot. (And It’s Aiming Our Way.)
Active Region 1654 on the Sun's western limb, seen by SDO on Jan. 11 (NASA/SDO/HMI team. Diagram by J. Major.)…
Sunspot 1520 Fires a Flare
Remember that cool animation I posted earlier of AR1520 and how I said there's no guarantee it wouldn't unleash an…