There were a total of 54 X-class flares in 2024, according to SpaceWeatherLive.com, which maintains the oldest and most accurate publicly available dataset on solar flares.That is the highest ...

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, kicked off in 2024, allowing an unusually high number of powerful X-class flares to explode from our home star. | Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL The number ...

EST (0315 GMT on Dec. 26). Solar flares are ranked and categorized by their power on a 4-level classification scale, with M-class the second strongest to the beastly X-class at the top.

STIX captured the location and size of X-rays emitted by solar flares, which are now represented with those blue circles, while the EUI images showcase the sun's outer atmosphere in yellow.

An X-class solar flare erupted on December 29, 2023, sending a burst of solar energy toward Earth that may enhance auroras just in time for New Year celebrations. The flare, classified as X1.1 ...

The Green Brigade spent much of yesterday trying ... Then Greg and Brendan should kiss and make-up by going over the the North Curve after the match.

This record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which flew to within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun, braving the blistering heat of our star's outer ...

Journal Editorial Report: The president believes his legacy is the color green. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press As nations use more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power ...

On Oct. 3, the sun unleashed the most powerful solar flare of the current solar cycle yet. The X-class flare — the ... casting a giant shadow across our planet. Solar prominences form above ...

It started as a hobby watching the night sky with a small telescope as a kid in Etobicoke. Little did Bob MacPhail, now 71 of Perry Township, know back then that his interest would grow to the ...