Ultra-close-up photos show the Sun like you’ve never seen it before. By Joshua Hawkins. ... That could help NASA, and other space agencies better prepare Earth for incoming solar flares.

During its flyby, Parker snapped some amazing close-up images of the Sun, which NASA finally released to the public yesterday ...

This one deserves a close up! Here’s another, multi-wavelength look at today’s X8.7-class solar flare, the most powerful of this solar cycle.

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the blast that caused "a strong shortwave radio blackout over South ...

But NASA does keep a close eye on our Sun with satellites such as SOHO in case it decides to flare up in our direction. This article was originally published on March 2, 2021 Learn Something New ...

Close up view of the sun during low activity and no solar flares. (Image credit: NASA) The SDO observes the sun with a variety of instruments and in many different wavelengths.

Solar flares are ranked on a scale from A to X, ... The higher the number, the stronger the flare — and Tuesday’s X2.7 eruption was enough to light up solar observatories around the world.

X-class flares have been estimated to reach up to an X45; ... When the Sun is dormant, there's usually less than one solar flare a week, but close to solar maximum, ...

Add solar superflares to the list of natural disasters of concern. Superflares are extremely strong solar flares – explosions with energies up to ten thousand times that of typical solar flares.