Articles for tag: Astronomy, solar flares, solar science, sun

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Our Sun Is More Mysterious Than We Think, New Discoveries Show

Suhail Ahmed

  The star we treat as a familiar backdrop to daily life has quietly become one of the strangest laboratories in modern physics. Over the past few years, spacecraft have plunged into its blistering atmosphere, neutrino detectors have listened for ghostly particles from its core, and radio telescopes have watched it flicker in ways that ...

Why Solar Flares Are a Real Threat to Modern Civilization

Why Solar Flares Are a Real Threat to Modern Civilization

Annette Uy

In the vast expanse of space, the sun sits as a powerful, blazing sphere, its surface a cauldron of nuclear reactions. Every so often, this fiery giant erupts, sending massive bursts of energy hurtling through space. These eruptions, known as solar flares, might seem distant and harmless from our vantage point on Earth. However, the ...