The feature was designated sunspot complex 3976-82, named for a series of individual active regions that had drifted together ...

A sunspot group carrying a delta magnetic configuration, the most complex and energetically dangerous class that solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A false color image of the sun, shown in blue greens, as flares a swirls erupt from its surface. All eyes have now shifted to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bright white explosion of light erupts from the swirling surface of the sun in a green false-color image. Newly emerged sunspot ...

Large and complex sunspot groups characterize the surface of the dynamic sun during its activity cycle. A new camera system at the Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) at the Observatorio del Teide on ...

An Earth-facing sunspot region has been raging with massive eruptions of hot gas that have caused disruptions to our communications systems—and there’s still more to come. On Tuesday at 5:49 p.m. ET, ...

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class solar flares—an achievement rarely possible from Earth. Using the GREGOR ...

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Groundbreaking images of the Sun captured by scientists at NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) give a first-ever detailed view of the interior structure of umbrae — the dark patches in the center ...

This historically large sunspot, now 15 times wider than Earth, rivals the one linked to the colossal solar storm of 1859. Reading time 3 minutes The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast ...

It’s been 2½ weeks since a once-in-a-generation display of auroras, or northern and southern lights, visited both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Shimmering lights danced as far south as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A giant black spot has appeared on the sun’s disk — and ...