Solar Flare News

Posted November 15, 2011:

• Why Solar Wind Is Rhombic-Shaped: Temperature and Energy Equipartition in Cosmic Plasmas Explained

Posted November 11, 2011:

• 2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility, Experts Say

Posted November 10, 2011:

• Giant Planet Ejected from the Solar System?

Posted October 20, 2011:

• Space Weather Prediction Model Improves Forecasting

Posted October 5, 2011:

• Dark and Bright: European Space Agency Chooses Next Two Science Missions

Posted September 26, 2011:

• Strong Solar Storm Reaching Earth
• Sunspot 1302 Continues to Turn Toward Earth

Posted September 23, 2011:

• Solar Activity Can Affect Re-Entry of UARS Satellite

Posted September 15, 2011:

• Turbulent Lives of Stars

Posted September 7, 2011:

• Space Instrument Observes New Characteristics of Solar Flares; Findings May Lead to Improved Space Weather Forecasting

Posted August 24, 2011:

• How a Distant Black Hole Devoured a Star

Posted August 19, 2011:

• New Method Detects Emerging Sunspots Deep Inside the Sun, Provides Warning of Dangerous Solar Flares

Posted August 18, 2011:

• New Images Reveal Structures of the Solar Wind as It Travels Toward and Impacts Earth

Posted August 9, 2011:

• Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? Sun Emits an X-Class Flare on August 9, 2011

Posted July 27, 2011:

• Wave Power Can Drive Sun's Intense Heat

Posted July 21, 2011:

• Exoplanet Aurora: An out-of-This-World Sight

Posted July 14, 2011:

• New Ways to Measure Magnetism Around the Sun

Posted June 29, 2011:

• Studying Solar Wind

Posted June 28, 2011:

• Neutron Star Bites Off More Than It Can Chew

Posted June 23, 2011:

• Solar Wind Samples Give Insight Into Birth of Solar System

Posted June 15, 2011:

• Scientists Prove Existence of 'Magnetic Ropes' That Cause Solar Storms
• When Jupiter Was in the Position of Mars

Posted June 14, 2011:

• New Insights on How Solar Minimums Affect Earth

Posted June 9, 2011:

• Magnetic Bubbles Reside at Solar System Edge, NASA Probes Suggest

Posted June 7, 2011:

• NASA Sees the Sun Having a Solar Blast
• NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Catches 'Surfer' Waves on the Sun

Posted June 5, 2011:

• New Solar System Formation Models Indicate That Jupiter's Foray Robbed Mars of Mass

Posted May 11, 2011:

• NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula

Posted April 18, 2011:

• New Tools to Tackle a Solar Data Storm
• Watching the Birth of a Sunspot
• Plasmoids and Sheaths Mean Success or Failure for Solar Eruptions

Posted April 15, 2011:

• Solar Activity Heats Up: Sunspots Finally Return

Posted April 4, 2011:

• Formaldehyde: Poison Could Have Set the Stage for the Origins of Life

Posted March 31, 2011:

• Mysterious 'Ribbon' of Energy and Particles That Wrap Around Solar System's Heliosphere Isolated

Posted March 3, 2011:

• Oldest Objects in Solar System Indicate a Turbulent Beginning

Posted March 2, 2011:

• Solar Mystery of Missing Sunspots Explained

Posted February 24, 2011:

• Solar Experts Detect Waves in Giant Magnetic Holes the Size of the UK

Posted February 18, 2011:

• Solar Flare: Space Weather Disrupts Communications, Threatens Other Technologies

Posted February 7, 2011:

• First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun

Posted February 4, 2011:

• New Images Show Cloud Exploding from Sun Ripples Like Clouds on Earth

Posted January 27, 2011:

• First Large-Scale, Physics-Based Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation

Posted January 14, 2011:

• Improved Measurements of Sun to Advance Understanding of Climate Change

Posted January 10, 2011:

• New Insights Into Sun's Photosphere

Posted January 6, 2011:

• Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved
• Surprising Flares in Crab Nebula

Posted January 4, 2011:

• Solar Research Instrument 'Fills the Gap,' Views Sun's Innermost Corona

Posted December 15, 2010:

• European Space Agency Makes the Sun Available to Everyone

Posted December 13, 2010:

• NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline En Route to Interstellar Space
• Global Eruption Rocks the Sun: Scientists Re-Evaluate Ideas About Solar Storms

Posted December 1, 2010:

• Dark Matter Could Transfer Energy in the Sun

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