When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Sunspot AR 14100 reemerged over the sun's western limb on Monday (May 26) after spending two ...
While the Sun’s solar flares strongly correlate with sunspots, observations of more than 14,000 other stars show this is not generally the case.
Our Sun has a case of chickenpox. The past few nights have been prime opportunities to witness something we call “sunspots”, splotches of black dots on the surface of the Sun. There are over a dozen ...
The sun is not only our closest stellar neighbor, it's also the star we understand the most. As we've observed it over the ...
BOULDER–Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...
The solar cycle continues to ramp up with currently the largest number of sunspots in the last two decades and maybe even longer. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center(SWPC) reports the estimated ...
The sun’s magnetic polarity appears to reverse at a super-fast speed — every 11 years. The cycle produces sunspots, solar flares and huge coronal mass ejections. (NASA/SDO) The maximum of the Perseid ...
Observing an eclipse of the sun is always fascinating, but on March 29, 2025 — when a partial solar eclipse is visible in the Northern Hemisphere — there will be an extra reason to do so. As well as ...
Boulder, Colorado — Scientists from the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Tucson, Arizona, have discovered that a solar jet stream deep inside the Sun is migrating slower than usual through the star ...
A small sunspot has the sun all to itself Sunday afternoon (March 8). It's only the 4th spotted, active region to appear this year. Details: 3-inch refracting telescope with a solar filter, Canon DSLR ...
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