Tagged: solar flare

The Sun’s largest solar flare in more than 12 years – and the eighth largest since modern records began in 1996 – has been captured in high detail by a team of researchers from the University of Sheffield and Queen’s University Belfast. This historical event...

A. Sutherland – – The Sun is both our life bringer and destroyer. On April 23rd (only two days ago), a dark filament of magnetism on the Sun exploded. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory monitored the event. A new analysis shows that debris from the explosion...