A giant, hyperactive sunspot that unleashed three X-class solar flares in less than 24 hours last week has continued to swell and is now pointed right at Earth. A period of unsettling quiet ...

The sun is once again extremely active. A massive sunspot is slowly turning towards Earth and is expected to spew out solar flares directly at us, leading to not just auroras but also radio blackouts.

Solar Storm Threat Is Back as Giant Sunspot Cluster Reappears The two new belts formed between the permanent Van Allen Belts, which are made up of high-energy electrons and protons and are held in ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

Several months back, a video of a solar flare that lasted three hours surfaced. A sunspot captured by the Inouye Solar Telescope. Image source: NSO/AURA/NSF This most recent X-class solar flare ...

and another sunspot, AR3691, is also growing and developing X-flare potential as its firing line approaches Earth. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 12: Increased solar activity results in the rare ...

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare ... (or even higher for giant X flares). So a C5 is just about ...

Related: How a giant sunspot unleashed solar storms that spawned ... that can trigger significant solar events, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — large blasts of plasma ...

An X-class solar flare ... of Sciences, the flare was recorded at 10:08 a.m. Moscow time. Scientists observed the peak of radiation at 10:18 a.m. Moscow time in sunspot group 3936 (N10W33).

This is the highest burst to be detected since 2008 by NASA satellites A giant flare that swept through the solar system in April sent scientists on investigation deep into space to uncover the ...

These spots are often the originating point of coronal mass ejections or solar flares, which unleash solar ... of one of these spots in a breathtaking sunspot time-lapse. The time-lapse was ...