Dec 19, 2021 · After the sun has burned through most of the hydrogen in its core, it will transition to its next phase as a red giant. At this point roughly 5 billion years in the future, the sun will …

Nov 1, 2023 · Roughly every 11 years, the sun slowly transitions from solar minimum, when our star is a smooth and calm ball of plasma, to solar maximum, when it becomes a chaotic, fiery …

May 8, 2024 · Solar flares are eruptions from the sun's surface that emit intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation. They occur when magnetic energy accumulating in the solar …

Dec 1, 2023 · On Nov. 28, a large flare erupted from a dark patch near the sun's equator. Solar orbiters measured the flare as a 9.8 magnitude M-class, which is just below the threshold of X …

On October 23, 2024, NASA ’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a powerful solar flare that peaked at 11:57 p.m. ET. This flare, classified as an X3.3, represents a high-intensity event …

Oct 4, 2024 · The Sun just unleashed the most powerful flare we've seen in seven years. On October 3, a flare measured at a strength of X9.0 exploded right in the middle of the solar disk. …

The Sun’s future does involve an explosion, but not in the catastrophic sense of a supernova. Instead, the Sun will enter the red giant phase, expanding outward and swallowing Mercury …

Apr 18, 2019 · When the sun is a white dwarf, most of the solar system will still be around. Mercury, Venus and Earth will be gone, but Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will …

Dec 15, 2023 · The Sun has just belched out an absolute beast of a flare. On 14 December, an active sunspot region named AR 3514 erupted in a class X2.8 solar flare, the most intense …

Feb 9, 2024 · The sun has unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare today, peaking at 8:10 a.m. (1310 GMT) and triggering shortwave radio blackouts across South America, Africa and the …