solar flare

  • Severe solar flares cause pretty lights in the sky

    September 28, 2011
    Finally, a powerful solar flare ejected by our sun on Monday, has started hitting the Earth and caused some pretty shimmering lights in the night skies above North America, and visible as far as the Northern United States and throughout Canada. Solar flares, basically the sun’s way of sneezing,...

  • Sun Shoots Out Massive Solar Flare

    February 17, 2011
    NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the largest solar flare released by the sun in four years. Called an X-Flare it’s the strongest types and can disrupt communications and electrical power grids on Earth. This is because solar flares aren’t only burst of energy. They’re also a magnetic pulse...