It’s been a week since a solar observatory was mysteriously closed — and we still don’t know why
Everyone loves a good mystery, but this is just weird.
Tag: sunspot
Despite slowing solar activity, NASA spots larger-than-Earth sunspot
It seems like a freckle, but this freckle is larger than the Earth.
Sun to flip its magnetic field in a few months
The Sun is gearing up for a major polarity switch, NASA announced: the North Pole which was in the northern ...
Sun’s magnetic ‘heartbeat’ is discovered
A magnetic solar 'heartbeat' beats deep down in the Sun's interior, generating energy that leads to solar flares and sunspots. ...
NASA observers rapidly growing sun spot
What you see in this picture is two black spots on the sun, known as sunspots, which appeared quickly over ...
Powerful solar flare headed our way set to spark beautiful Northern Lights
False-color image of the recently erupted, powerful X-class solar flare, whose corronal mass ejection is expected to reach Earth's magnetic ...
Superflares 10,000 times more powerful than those in our solar system, observed on sun-like stars
Some stars, most often during their early life, exhibit an intense and energetic behavior, much greater than that of our ...
Huge sunspots the size of the Earth warns of potential massive solar storms
Astronomers have observed a huge sunspot group on the surface of the sun, sized at more than 60,000 miles across, which ...
Sunspot 1302: big, bad, and coming our way
Every three hours throughout the day, magnetic observers located all around our planet measure the biggest magnetic change that their ...
First time 360 view of the SUN
Forget the Moon - for the first time ever we have a full view of the star in our solar ...
The most detailed photo of a Sun Spot to date captured by the Big Bear Solar Observatory
Now, that's not Sauron's eye. Pictured above is the most highly detailed photo of a sunspot ever taken at present ...