Northern lights occur when a solar flare interacts with Earth's atmosphere.
The flares are coming from a solar region that was created in late January.
In a dramatic escalation of solar activity, the sun has unleashed an X8.3 flare — 2026’s strongest yet — causing radio ...
The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years ...
Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.
Space weather has seen a flurry of activity this week. An explosive solar flare that erupted Tuesday, just two days after the ...
Scientists say this powerful surge in solar activity could set the stage for the northern lights to appear as early as Thursday, Feb. 5 ...
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Sun unleashes extraordinary solar flare barrage as new volatile sunspot turns toward Earth
A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption.
"This is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years," the Space Weather Prediction Center said on Monday.
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