After weeks of reduced activity, the sun erupted with three powerful flares on a single day. That could send solar flares ...

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured sunspot AR3386 blast a long-duration X1.6-class solar flare and X1 flare. See time-lapses of the flares in multiple wavelengths. Credit Space.com | footage c ...

After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three ...

Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA As Spaceweather.com notes, early Tuesday morning’s “complex quartet” of solar activity was what’s known as a “super-sympathetic flare,” in which multiple events ...

The solar flare peaked at about noon on Thursday, according to NASA. The solar flare was classified as an X2.8 flare — a class denoting the most intense flares.

Solar flares can last mere minutes, or can drag on for hours, depending on their intensity. NASA classifies solar flares based on their strength, with B-class being the smallest and X-class ...

NASA shared this latest solar flare image on Instagram. In the post, NASA says that the flare was captured by the Solar Dynamic Observatory. The flare was captured by the SDO on October 2 of 2022.