An Earth-facing sunspot has turned into a prolific flare factory, firing off multiple powerful M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours, along with several minor C-class eruptions.

Solar flares measured around X1 — like the May 13 and 14 events — indicate strong flare intensity. An X10 flare is described as as a severe event, according to NOAA.

A high-powered solar flare erupted from the sun last week, causing a major radio blackout in Europe and Asia. The eruption happened at 3:25 a.m., meaning that the sun wasn't in the Texas sky at ...

"More To Come" Hours after the X2.7 flare on May 14, 2025, sunspot region AR4087 erupted again with a potent M5.3-class flare. By 7:20 a.m. ET on May 15, it unleashed another, an M7.74-class flare.

Aditya-L1 took a picture of an X-class solar flare—a colossal explosion of energy from the Sun—on December 31, 2023. The burst was accompanied by the ejection of a glowing plasma "blob" that ...

A strong solar flare peaked at around 4:25 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, causing radio blackouts across Europe, Asia and Africa. Courtesy of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

We originally see Solar Flare used for the first time by Tien Shinhan in Dragon Ball and eventually see the move used by Krillin, Goku, and Cell throughout Dragon Ball Z.

The sun released over 50 X-class solar flares in 2024! Here we take a look at some of the best. It's been a busy year on the sun, as it officially entered the peak of its roughly 11-year cycle of ...

The sun put on quite the spooktacular show on Halloween, firing off an X2.0 solar flare. A sunspot known as AR 3878 fired off the X-class flare at 5:20 p.m. EDT (2120 UTC) on Oct. 31, measuring in ...

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.

An X7.1 (R3) solar flare erupted from Region 3842 this evening - as seen in this animation (courtesy of jhelioviewer). This was the second strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25, only bested by an X8.7 ...

Sure enough, AR3784 spewed a flare toward Earth early Wednesday morning, peaking at 2:40 a.m. EDT (6:40 a.m. UTC). As X-class flares tend to do, this one disrupted shortwave radio operations ...