Flickering, invisible “loops” in the sun’s atmosphere appear to warn of larger solar flares ... in the hours before a flare. These coronal loops — flickering arcs of plasma that produce ...

Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun—can shoot out hazardous levels of energy strong enough to reach Earth’s atmosphere. Predicting solar flares, ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO and chief scientist at Space Environment Technologies, is ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares—intense bursts of light on the sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now ...

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Activity is expected to peak sometime in 2025, and until then, it will continue to spew out solar flares from sunspots all across its surface. On top of causing radio blackouts, we’ve also seen ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to ... All seven planets will be visible briefly right after sunset, stretching in an arc across the sky. By the time the sky is completely ...

the company announced it was cutting 1900 jobs across its gaming division, with a further 650 cuts being made in September. Eurogamer understands Microsoft's latest layoffs have impacted a small ...

Sunspots appear all over the star’s surface, and often they erupt. As the Sun moves towards the solar maximum, those solar flares increase, as do the changes of geomagnetic storms. These storms ...