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 has unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare today, peaking at 8:10 a.m. (1310 GMT) and triggering shortwave radio blackouts across South America, Africa and the Southern Atlantic.

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 ...

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).

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 ...

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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 ...