solar flares
Good News! Red Dwarfs Blast Their Superflares out the Poles, Sparing Their Planets From Destruction
The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets.
The Sun is Mellow Yellow Today. Billions of Years Ago? Not So Much
Planetary formation theory has been undergoing a lot of changes recently, with an ever expanding litany of events that can…
A Recent Megaflare Shows that Proxima Centauri is not a Nice Place to Live
A new international research effort observed a massive solar flare from Proxima Centauri, which indicates (yet again) that its not…
Researchers Discover the Source of the Sun’s Most Dangerous High-Energy Particles
Sometimes the sun spits out high-energy particles which slam into the Earth, potentially disrupting our sensitive electronics. New research has…
Do Ripples on the Surface of the Sun tell us that a Flare is Coming?
Flares from the sun are some of the nastiest things in the solar system. When the sun flares, it belches…
New Solar Model Successfully Predicted Seven of the Sun’s Last Nine Big Flares
Since it launched in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory has helped scientists understand how the Sun's magnetic field is generated…
The Sun is less active magnetically than other stars
While the Sun can be active, it is often quite a calm star. We now know it is unusually calm…
Without a Magnetosphere, Planets Orbiting Flare Stars Don’t Stand a Chance
Earthlings are fortunate. Our planet has a robust magnetic shield. Without out magnetosphere, the Sun's radiation would've probably ended life…
Astronomers See an Enormous Coronal Mass Ejection… On Another Star!
For the first time ever, astronomers have witnessed a coronal mass ejection (CME) on a star other than our very…
Proxima Centauri Just Released a Flare so Powerful it was Visible to the Unaided Eye. Planets There Would Get Scorched
According to a new study, Proxima Centauri experiences superflare activity that would likely render its exoplanet (Proxima b) uninhabitable