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Introduction to Solar Flares Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's surface. They occur when intense magnetic energy that has built up in the solar ...

You may have noticed that more auroras have been visible in recent years, including from lower latitudes. Here's why the ...

Scientists at the Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) at IISER Kolkata are excited about the first ...

ISRO's Aditya-L1 mission captures solar flare 'kernel,' providing new insights into Sun's explosive activities, impacting ...

Powerful solar flare causes radio blackout over Pacific - Sunspot on Sun’s northwestern limb identified as source of flare ...

It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that directly affects Earth’s atmosphere.

The choice of location for a solar flare spectator camp is important. You want a place with minimal light pollution and ...

Just a few months after it was launched, the spacecraft observed one of the most violent flare eruptions on the sun - from ...

Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...