What's the difference between a solar flare and a coronal mass ejection? And how do they lead to auroras?

The Northern Lights may be visible in the U.S. overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday as a coronal mass ejection travels towards ...

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The peak of Solar Cycle 25 is coming and it could mean an uptick in geomagnetic storms. Could Tennessee see the aurora ...

The sun remains active, and a geomagnetic storm alert has been issued for June 24-25, as a recurrent, negative polarity ...

X1.9-class solar flare triggers blackout across Pacific communication No coronal mass ejection seen, so aurora activity remains unlikely Region 4114 shows repeated flaring, indicating high solar activ ...

Proba-3 will create about 1,000 hours of images of the corona over its two-year mission — and anyone will be able to download the data. "We have an open data policy — the uncalibrated data will be ...

The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said. It was an X-class flare — the most intense kind, NASA said. Solar flares are essentially "giant explosions ...

On Thursday night, June 19, most of Michigan is within the line of sight, so if the weather permits, it might be worth looking up at the night sky, preferably in an area with less light pollution.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying ...

This peak in activity produces flares and coronal mass ejections, where charged particles ride along the Sun’s ever-flowing solar wind out into the Solar System — and sometimes strike Earth.

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