NASA Telescope Observes How Sun Stores and Releases Energy WASHINGTON — A NASA suborbital telescope has given scientists the first clear evidence of energy transfer from the sun’s magnetic field…

Today the sun emitted an impressive CME at about 04:00  UTC. This event is related to a coronal hole in the sun’s southern latitudes. Click the image to see a video of…

Today 1/9/13 at approximately 05:30 UTC a very large solar flare occurred as can be seen in the image above.  It does not appear that this is an Earth effecting event. Watch…

A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but without sufficient force to overcome the…

Every eleven years the sun experiences a peak of sun spot activity, we are nearing this peak period now but activity is low and below predictions. As you can see…

The Sun erupted with several CMEs (coronal mass ejections) during a period just over a day (Nov. 8-9, 2012), the largest of which was a halo CME. In the video…

Video of the Two Prominence Eruptions The Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period (Nov. 16, 2012). The action was captured in the…

Issue Time: 2012 Nov 21 0728 UTC ALERT: Type II Radio Emission Begin Time: 2012 Nov 21 0654 UTC Estimated Velocity: 720 km/s NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be…