New research from the University of St Andrews has proposed that particles in solar flares are 6.5 times hotter than previously thought. The research provides an unexpected solution to a 50-year-old ...
When a patch of the Sun erupts, nearby regions sometimes fire off in sympathy, like a row of dominoes toppling across the ...
Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...
Observations of the slip-running reconnection in active region 13107, as seen by the IRIS (inset) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory / Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument. The evolution of ...