Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.
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The sun has cracked open across 400,000 miles, triggering six major flares in under 96 hours
The sunspot region designated AR 14098 rotated over the Sun’s eastern limb in late January carrying magnetic complexity forecasters had not seen since the final months of 2025. Within 96 hours of ...
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The sun just spat out the strongest solar flares of 2025 — and more could be headed toward Earth
The sun has had an active few days, firing several powerful solar flares and (plumes of searing-hot solar material out into space. On Tuesday (May 13), a sunspot on the sun's surface named AR4086 ...
In the span of two days last week, the sun released two strong solar flares — meaning the solar system experienced its most powerful explosions which can cause some communications blackouts on Earth, ...
Considered our solar system's largest explosive events, solar flares can sometimes be as strong as a billion hydrogen bombs. Those with enough energy output to rank as an X-class have the potential to ...
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