On August 31, 2012, a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled ...

The sun currently has a huge coronal hole, or sunspot, that could trigger magnetic storms on Earth, say Russian experts. The hole is shaped like an inverted number 1 and is about 1 million kilometres ...

Referred to as a “stealth storm,” a recent coronal mass ejection went undetected until it hit Earth. Stealth coronal mass ejections are more common after the Sun transitions from the solar maximum to ...

From 93 million miles away, the Sun just got a lot more personal. Astronomers have now seen some of its finest magnetic threads in sharper detail than ever before, and those tiny features could change ...

"Astronomers have wanted to spot a coronal mass ejection on another star for decades. We’ve now managed to do this for the first time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An artist’s impression of an eruption from a large red star and its effect on a small planet near it: the small blue object with a faint, wispy trail, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. (Olena ...

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A high-resolution image of the flare taken by Daniel Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii – NSF/NSO/AURA via SWNS The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been captured by the world’s ...

The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been taken by the world's largest solar telescope. Record-breaking images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii reveal a flare four ...