CME
Incoming! CME On Its Way Toward Earth
As you read this, a huge cloud of charged solar particles is speeding toward our planet, a coronal mass ejection…
Sunspot 1520 Fires a Flare
Remember that cool animation I posted earlier of AR1520 and how I said there's no guarantee it wouldn't unleash an…
Fireworks from the Sun
From July 2 to July 5, the Sun shot off a whopping eighteen M-class solar flares. Most originated from Active…
New Warning System Designed to Keep Astronauts Safe from Solar Storms
A new solar storm prediction system based in Antarctica could provide astronauts in space warning time of over two hours…
How Big Are Sunspots?
[/caption] The short answer? Really big. The long answer? Really, really big. The image above shows sunspot regions in comparison…
How Big Was Monday’s CME?
This big! The M1.7-class flare that erupted from active region 1461 on Monday, April 16 let loose an enormous coronal…
Big Blast from the Sun
The CME we reported on earlier today was obviously just a warm up to the latest blast: A beautiful prominence…
The Sun Spits Out a Coronal Mass Ejection
Ever squirted water out of your mouth when playing in a swimming pool or lake? This Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)…
Watch Mercury Get Smacked By CMEs
The bright object in the center of this video sequence is the planet Mercury, seen by NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft as…
Dark Figures Do An Eerie Dance On The Sun
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this video on March 27 - 28 of two large areas of "dark" plasma on…