Strongest geomagnetic storm this solar cycle sparks dazzling Northern Lights
A pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emitted by the sun last Sunday have now triggered a severe geomagnetic storm ...
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Comet ISON offers a rare Thanksgiving sight with closest flyby to the sun
UPDATE: Telescopes saw the giant ball of ice and dust disappear behind the star, but then fail to emerge as expected. ...
A giant hole in the Sun [Marvelous PHOTO]
(c) NASA If you're a regular follower of NASA's updates, you may have caught glimpses of some of the X-ray ...
Doomsday part 4: Solar flares
A solar flare will breach Earth's magnetic field that typically shelters our planet's surface from such hazards. The ensuing onslaught ...
Turbulence in space confirmed and measured for the first time
A massive coronal mass ejection. (c) Wikimedia Commons A rather frustrating issue for astronomers and astrophysicists is space turbulence. Like ...
Solar plasma waves imaged with gradient filter turns science to fine art
This Friday, a solar eruption of spectacular proportions took place. The ensuing plasma wave, measuring millions of degrees in temperature, ...
Astronomers try to predict huge solar blasts by studying coronal cavities
From time to time, the sun projects billion-ton clouds of charged particles from its scorching surface, surrounded by a solar ...
Powerful solar flare headed our way set to spark beautiful Northern Lights
False-color image of the recently erupted, powerful X-class solar flare, whose corronal mass ejection is expected to reach Earth's magnetic ...
Superflares 10,000 times more powerful than those in our solar system, observed on sun-like stars
Some stars, most often during their early life, exhibit an intense and energetic behavior, much greater than that of our ...
Huge sunspots the size of the Earth warns of potential massive solar storms
Astronomers have observed a huge sunspot group on the surface of the sun, sized at more than 60,000 miles across, which ...
