Understanding how the Sun and its activity impact Earth and the solar system is important because solar storms affect the technology we use on Earth and in space. Now, a team of heliophysicists and ...
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Latvia have posited the first comprehensive physical explanation for the sun's various activity cycles. It ...
On May 10, 2024, a John Deere dealer sent out a strange press release. “Please be advised that there is significant solar flare and space weather activity,” it read. The company, a maker of tractors ...
The magnetic field of the Sun plays a crucial role in shaping the heliosphere — the domain of the Sun — by accelerating the solar wind into a pair of jets As the Sun skims through the galaxy, it ...
Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have produced the most realistic simulations yet of solar prominences and how they form and evolve. These dramatic ...