The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

A powerful solar flare unleashed by the Sun on Sunday caused a radio blackout across parts of the Pacific Ocean, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The strong “X2.0-class” ...

The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

The sun unleashed a strong X2 solar flare on Sunday; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released an alert stating radio blackouts can occur, indicating a slight chance for ...

Flickering, invisible “loops” in the sun’s atmosphere appear to warn of larger solar flares to come, a new analysis finds. The discovery could help scientists better predict space weather ...

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Such superflares release more energy than a trillion hydrogen bombs and make all previously recorded solar flares pale in ... Oct. 15, 2024 — Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its ...

Yusef-Zadeh likens the event to a solar flare. “It’s similar to how the sun’s magnetic field gathers together, compresses and then erupts a solar flare,” he explained. “Of course ...

The research, highlighted by Science Alert, focused on the intense solar activity of 2024, particularly from a volatile region known as AR13664, which produced a powerful X8.7 flare.

“It’s similar to how the Sun’s magnetic field gathers together, compresses, and then erupts a solar flare,” Yusef-Zadeh said in a statement. “Of course, the processes are more dramatic ...

Feb. 21, 2025 — Perovskite solar cells are highly efficient and low cost in production. However, they still lack stability over the decades under real weather conditions. An international ...