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A sunspot named AR3901 that keeps flinging out M-class solar flares is about to face toward the Earth, putting us in the ...

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The category X14 flare is the 7th-strongest recorded with modern instruments by one measure. It erupted from the far side of the sun and was accompanied by a massive coronal mass ejection (CME ...

By Katrina Miller Before the northern lights fill the night sky on Earth with their eerie neon glow, a blast of electrified gas flares up from the sun’s surface. And scientists are now getting a ...