major power outages in a matter of hours. The giant sunspot named AR3664, which is 124, 000 miles-wide

completed important work on sunspots, solar photography and debunking the canals-on-Mars myth, have been

eye on sunspots appearing on the Sun's surface by using sensors and satellites. When sunspots erupt

some of our favourite sunspots....

It was caused by a" large, complex" sunspot cluster 17 times the diameter of the Earth. The last

Some U.S. states could be treated to a northern lights display thanks to a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space forecasts. Another round of aurora borealis is expected on Thursday night, with a predicted Kp index of magnitude four out of nine, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration( NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center. The northernmost states in the U.S. have the highest chances of seeing the northern lights, including Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Mont

This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding.... These classes of solar storms are capable of inducing minor fluctuations in power grids, affecting satellite operations and causing intermittent satellite-and low-frequency-radio-navigation problems.... This week's CME could lead to a G3-class geomagnetic storm( Image: NOAA) A coronal mass ejection in the September of 1859 caused the most powerful geomagnetic storm on record — one which scientists refer to as “ the

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 27 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... He is a – if not the – central figure of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century," reads the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Born in Pisa, Italy on Feb.... 7, 1610, Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter — making it the first observation of this planet.He utilized his telescope to identify four of Jupiter's orbiting moons, examine Saturn, observe the varying phases of Venus, an

Many Britons missed out on the Northern Lights which dazzled in the night sky above the UK on Friday and Saturday night last week.... The incredible spectacle, fueled by a major geomagnetic storm in the skies, was thought to be a once-in-a-decade event.... However, experts now claim that there are signs that another large solar storm could give Brits a third chance to see the sight.Dr Greg Brown, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, revealed that a huge burst of solar activity could

A solar flare detected on Tuesday, July 20, has cast a rogue cloud of charged particles towards our planet.... Although not aimed directly at Earth, the" explosion's debris" is forecast to trigger a minor solar storm in the magnetosphere surrounding Earth on Friday, July 23.... Experts at the US Space Weather Prediction Center( SWPC) have warned the storm could lead to weak power grid disruptions. The experts wrote in their three-day forecast:" A G1( Minor) or greater geomagnetic storms is pos