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Solar physicists have long known that the sun stores staggering amounts of magnetic energy, but the exact trigger that lets that energy explode in a solar flare has been stubbornly elusive. Now, a new ...

Scientists may have taken one step closer to solving a centuries-old conundrum about the sun's magnetic field. The sun's powerful magnetic field is responsible for the sunspots that spit out dramatic ...

NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captures sharpest-ever view of the solar surface to reveal our finest look at narrow magnetic stripe-like features known as striations Maui, Hawai‘i; June 3, 2025 ...

The sun, and the intense magnetic activity it generates that causes the northern lights, waxes and wanes on an 11-year-long solar cycle that is at its maximum. Because NASA anticipates the solar ...

Solar magnetic activity plays a pivotal role in driving a myriad of eruptive events in the corona, including flares, filament eruptions and coronal mass ejections. These phenomena arise from the ...

There may be more northern lights – or aurora borealis – sightings this spring. As we near the spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, on March 20, the Earth's magnetic field and solar wind ...

A giant solar flare on our sun was powered by an avalanche of smaller magnetic disturbances, providing the clearest insight yet into how energy from our star is released in a torrent of high-energy ...