You could get more opportunities to see supercharged auroras over the next few months, thanks to our very active sun. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle. The current cycle, known as ...

2024 was a busy year for solar news, but what can we expect from 2025? In April, a total solar eclipse was visible to millions in North America. This was followed in May by the largest geomagnetic ...

Our sun has officially hit its solar maximum, with increased rates of auroras and solar flares expected in the coming months, NASA has announced. The sun goes through 11-year cycles of activity, ...

The spectacle was particularly enthralling for Lisa Upton, who caught the skies over Boulder, Colo., glowing eerily red. Upton, a heliophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute, is an expert in ...

An X7.1 (R3) solar flare erupted from Region 3842 this evening - as seen in this animation (courtesy of jhelioviewer). This was the second strongest flare of Solar ...

On Oct. 15 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) jointly announced that the sun had entered solar maximum, a stretch of time when its activity is at or near peak. There ...

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This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (on the right, captured in December 2019).

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