Our Solar System is an incredibly beautiful place. It’s a diverse place full of remarkable sights and natural wonders, whether it’s the pockmarked volcanic surface of Mercury, the dusty crimson plains of Mars, the beautiful rings of Saturn, or even … Read More
You’ve probably heard that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made history this year by becoming the first spacecraft to “touch the Sun.” Now there’s video of the probe whizzing through the Sun’s corona, and to say it’s breathtaking is an understatement … Read More
An astrophotographer has revealed his ‘clearest ever photo of the Sun.’ Andrew McCarthy layered 150,000 individual photographs of the Sun to represent the intricate and stunning detail of the solar system’s star. The photographer, known on Instagram as @cosmic-background, defines … Read More
On Thursday (Oct. 28), the sun ejected a massive solar flare, the most powerful storm of our star’s current weather cycle. According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), which tracks space weather events, the sun produced an X1-class … Read More
The sunspot appeared last week as large but relatively calm in the active region 2882, or AR2882. But now it begins to activate and the AR2882 erupts with a powerful coronary mass ejection (CME) on the morning of October 9 … Read More
On August 28, 1859, the Carrington event began with a massive ejection of a solar coronal mass that struck the Earth’s magnetosphere and caused the most powerful geomagnetic storm in history. They called it a solar superstorm. Solar activity, with … Read More