When a patch of the Sun erupts, nearby regions sometimes fire off in sympathy, like a row of dominoes toppling across the ...
New research from the University of St Andrews has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than previously thought. The research provides an unexpected solution to a 50-year-old ...
Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...
Observations of the slip-running reconnection in active region 13107, as seen by the IRIS (inset) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory / Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument. The evolution of ...