The NSF inouye solar telescope observes its first x-class solar flare and reveals the smallest coronal loops ever imaged MAUI, HI - AUGUST 25, 2025 — The highest-resolution images of a solar flare ...

Astronomers using the Inouye Solar Telescope have captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar flare, revealing coronal loops as thin as 21 km wide. These threadlike plasma structures, imaged during ...

A record-breakingly sharp image of a solar flare allowed astronomers to get a closer look into the Sun's mysterious coronal loops. Reading time 2 minutes It took astronomers a little over a year to ...

Flickering coronal loops in the Sun's outer atmosphere could act as an early warning system for solar flares, according to new research. Reading time 2 minutes Intense solar flares—sudden bursts of ...

The Sun broke several days of relative silence on Monday, June 9, 2026, unleashing an M1.8-class solar flare that lit up NOAA ...

The sun has a bone to pick with Earth — and it’s not done yet. A colossal solar storm just zapped the daylight side of the planet, causing global blackouts and knocking out radio signals across Europe ...

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A strong solar flare peaked just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, but what does that mean? Can it be seen from Earth?Tuesday's solar flare was not the first this year or even this month. Here is more information ...

The sun is not a static, tranquil sphere of gas, but an active, turbulent star with magnetic fields that twist and snap in powerful eruptions. Among the most striking and energetic of these eruptions ...

Flickering, invisible “loops” in the sun’s atmosphere appear to warn of larger solar flares to come, a new analysis finds. The discovery could help scientists better predict space weather, researchers ...