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Double trouble: Sun unleashes 2 powerful X-class solar flares in 12 hours (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Two X-class solar flares erupted from the sun in less than 12 hours as a magnetically complex sunspot begins to face Earth.

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Solar Orbiter traces solar wind back to its mysterious source for 1st time

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has, for the first time, traced solar wind in space to a specific location on our sun's surface.

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Massive sunspot responsible for May's epic auroras unleashes major X-class solar flare (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

Sunspot region AR3697 has returned — unleashing yet another X-class solar flare. Watch it erupt from the sun's eastern limb here.

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two panel image on the left the sunspot is visible on the limb of the sun as a dark patch against a monochrome sun and on the right it is flaring with large fiery looking plasma loops of yellow.

That giant sunspot that supercharged auroras on Earth? It's back and may amp up the northern lights with June solar storms.

By Ryan French published

Old sunspot region AR 13664, now renamed AR 13697, is back. With its re-arrival, can we expect a resurgence of solar activity?

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a huge fiery expulsion erupts from the sun. Large loops and swirls of bright light dance around the southeastern limb of the sun.

Colossal X-class solar flare suggests return of sunspot group that fueled May's epic auroras (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

X-flare eruption hints at the return of the powerful sunspot group behind May's solar storms. Watch the solar eruption here.

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(Left) An image of the sun emitting a bright solar flare (right) the sun's magnetic fields over an image of our star captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Scientists find weird link between a solar mystery and feeding black holes

By Robert Lea published

The solar dynamo that drives sunspots and solar flares could be located near the surface of the sun scientists find, solving a 400-year-old solar mystery and providing a weird link to black holes.

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Solar storm frenzy of May 2024 was strong enough to affect the deep sea

By Stefanie Waldek published

Ocean Networks Canada's (ONC) deep-sea observatories recorded disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field.

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Here we go again — new sunspot regions emerge, strong solar flare recorded

By Meredith Garofalo published

With the decrease of potential impacts from AR 3664, forecasters are monitoring new sunspot regions developing on the eastern half of the sun.

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India's space agency has been carefully watching our sun's solar tantrums

By Stefanie Waldek published

The Indian Space Research Organization has released solar storm data from ground stations and spacecraft, including the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter.

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Huge, solar flare-launching sunspot has rotated away from Earth. But will it return?

By Meredith Garofalo published

The behemoth sunspot AR3664 has finally rotated out of Earth's view, firing off two more big solar storms on its way out the door. Will it come back?

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