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The stormy sun erupts with its biggest solar flare yet from a massive sunspot — and it's still crackling (video)
By Meredith Garofalo published
Just when we think we’ve seen the most powerful of flares from a colossal sunspot, the sun unleashed kicked off the strongest eruption of the weekend yet and is still crackling with solar storms.
Watch monster flare-spewing sunspot grow to be 15 times wider than Earth (video)
By Meredith Garofalo published
A beastly sunspot that's 15 times the diameter of Earth remains highly active — and you might be able to spot it with your eclipse glasses!
Behemoth sunspot AR3664 unleashes its biggest solar flare yet, sparking radio blackouts on Earth (video)
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
Sunspot AR3664, over 15 Earths wide, has unleashed its most powerful solar flare yet. Watch it erupt from the sun in this awesome video.
4 large incoming solar bursts could supercharge the auroras this weekend
By Meredith Garofalo published
The NOAA has bumped up its geomagnetic storm watch for May 11 to a "rare" level as solar activity continues at high levels and at least four coronal mass ejections propel toward Earth.
Gargantuan sunspot 15-Earths wide erupts with another colossal X-class solar flare (video)
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
Earth is once again in the firing line.
Sun explodes in a flurry of powerful solar flares from hyperactive sunspots (video)
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
Watch the sun explode in a fury as it unleashes yet another barrage of solar flares, including two of the most powerful: X-class.
Spacecraft captures absolutely incredible video of plasma swirling on the sun
By Keith Cooper published
The video gives an insight into the energetic events that transfer energy and plasma into the solar corona that ultimately drives the solar wind.
Sun unleashes X-class solar flare, radio blackouts reported (video)
By Meredith Garofalo published
A recently detected sunspot region unleashed a powerful X4.5 solar flare early Monday morning, causing radio blackouts throughout parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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