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Solar flares may erupt from magnetic avalanches on the sun, stunning new images show

Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets ...
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Magnetic Avalanche: ESA’s Solar Orbiter Data Reveals the Cascading Explosions of Solar Flares for the First Time

The ESA's Solar Orbiter has discovered that solar flares act like avalanches, growing from weak disturbances into powerful ...
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NMSU student links solar brightenings as precursor to flares

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A New Mexico State University (NMSU) astronomy Ph.D. student, who was leading a data cataloging ...

Sun blasts powerful X1.2-class solar flare - see spacecraft views

Watch footage of the Sun unleashing an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in ...

ESA's solar orbiter captured "magnetic avalanches" on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares

ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms, revealing hidden processes that could protect satellites and advance ...

NASA captures largest solar storm in over 20 years: What does it impact? Auroras sightings reported

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. A SWPC report added that the storm calmed and reached G4 status again on ...

Sun releases the largest solar radiation storm ‘in over 20 years,’ forecasters say

A powerful flare unleashed a severe solar storm that caused auroras and GPS disruptions on Earth.
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Aurora Watch in Effect as Severe Solar Storm Slams Into Earth

Earth is currently under bombardment from one of the most powerful geomagnetic storm categories the Sun can unleash. Thanks ...
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Giant sunspot that triggered recent solar 'superstorm' shot out nearly 1,000 flares and a secret X-rated explosion, record-breaking study reveals

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar ...
Science Daily

Spacecraft captures the "magnetic avalanche" that triggers giant solar explosions

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...