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Our sun’s fiery flares are even more extreme than scientists had thought, blasting particles to temperatures six times hotter than earlier estimates, according to new research. Solar flares are colossal explosions in the sun’s atmosphere that hurl out bursts of powerful radiation. These events are notorious for disrupting satellites, scrambling radio signals and potentially posing dangers to astronauts in space. …

The powerful belch of material ejected during a solar flare may be way hotter than scientists thought it was. A new mathematical analysis suggests that the engine driving solar flares is far more effective at heating charged particles, or ions, than it is at heating electrons. This could mean that we’ve been underestimating the Sun, since flare temperatures are estimated …

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of a mid-level solar flare on Jan. 12, 2015. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory hide caption toggle caption NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory Beautiful yet dangerous solar flares that erupt from the sun could be as hot as 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, researchers say. That’s more …

Solar flares are the Sun at full volume – sudden bursts of magnetic energy that can supercharge Earth’s upper atmosphere, disrupt radio signals, and threaten satellites and astronauts.  For decades, physicists have known that flare plasma gets incredibly hot, but exactly how different particles heat up – and why certain spectral fingerprints look “too wide” to explain – has remained …

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope has been a game-changer. It has delivered some of the highest resolution views we have ever taken of the Sun. Now, it has provided the highest resolution observations of coronal loops during a solar flare. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. …

After weeks of relative quiet, the Sun has erupted with a series of powerful solar flares, signaling a return to more active space weather conditions. Over the weekend, three M-class solar flares were unleashed in rapid succession, ending a 22-day period of calm. These eruptions, originating from sunspot region AR 4168, have caught the attention of space weather forecasters, who …

After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours. While the sun has been popping off plenty of smaller C-class flares lately, Sunday’s M2.9 eruption at 10:01 a.m. EDT (1401 GMT) on Aug. 3 was the first M-class flare since …

U.S. says NORAD intercepted Chinese, Russian bombers operating together U.S. says NORAD intercepted Chinese, Russian bombers operating together 00:20 Fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a civilian plane Sunday after it entered restricted airspace over President Trump’s property in Bedminster, New Jersey, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said, one of seven aircraft to violate the airspace over the weekend. …