The Sun has been very active so far this month, with powerful sympathetic solar flares dazzling scientists and viewers alike and recent X-class flares making many wonder about communications network integrity. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) constantly monitors the Sun and captures the recent powerful solar flares in exquisite detail across multiple wavelengths. In a … Read more
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured these images of a solar flare on Feb. 21 and 22, 2024. Credit: NASA/SDO Two powerful solar flares erupted from the Sun on the evening of Wednesday, February 21, and again in the early morning today, February 22. Coincidentally, there were widespread cellular outages across the United States this morning … Read more
Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Two powerful solar flares exploded nearly simultaneously on the Sun earlier this week, creating a spectacular and exceptionally rare sight. At about 10:30 PM ET on January 22, a pair of solar flares erupted from sunspots AR3559 and AR3561 at nearly the same time. The two flares occurred around … Read more
Anyone who follows the solar system closely will know the Sun is extremely active at the moment and video has emerged of a huge explosion on the surface that has already affected radio communications on Earth. The scary footage posted by NASA shows what the space agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured yesterday (December 14); a … Read more