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A Hidden Sunspot Group On The Far Side Of Our Star Could Bring Spectacular Aurorae Next Weekthe sun on may 20 with very few sunspots on its surface

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A Hidden Sunspot Group On The Far Side Of Our Star Could Bring Spectacular Aurorae Next Weekthe sun on may 20 with very few sunspots on its surface
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A Hidden Sunspot Group On The Far Side Of Our Star Could Bring Spectacular Aurorae Next Week

clock-iconMay 21, 2026

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The Sun Lost Its Spots – Our Star Has Experienced Its First Blemish-Free Days In 4 YearsThree images of the Sun across three days showing no sunspots.

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The Sun Lost Its Spots – Our Star Has Experienced Its First Blemish-Free Days In 4 YearsThree images of the Sun across three days showing no sunspots.
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The Sun Lost Its Spots – Our Star Has Experienced Its First Blemish-Free Days In 4 Years

clock-iconFebruary 25, 2026

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Why Is The Sun Throwing Out Such Epic X-Class Solar Flares Right Now – Including One Of The Strongest In 30 Years?this ulraviolet image of the Sun show a very active sun with arcs of lights across its surface and a very bright overexposed post near the middle where the flare was released.

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Why Is The Sun Throwing Out Such Epic X-Class Solar Flares Right Now – Including One Of The Strongest In 30 Years?this ulraviolet image of the Sun show a very active sun with arcs of lights across its surface and a very bright overexposed post near the middle where the flare was released.
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Why Is The Sun Throwing Out Such Epic X-Class Solar Flares Right Now – Including One Of The Strongest In 30 Years?

clock-iconFebruary 5, 2026
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Only Known Photo Of Richard Carrington – Of "Carrington Event" Fame – Found By ResearchersPortrait of astronomer Richard Carrington.

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Only Known Photo Of Richard Carrington – Of "Carrington Event" Fame – Found By ResearchersPortrait of astronomer Richard Carrington.
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Only Known Photo Of Richard Carrington – Of "Carrington Event" Fame – Found By Researchers

clock-iconFebruary 3, 2026
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The Sun Is Giving Us A Spooky Grimace Just In Time For HalloweenAn image of the Sun. a large dark area, a coronal hole, looks like a large mouth, and a bright spot above it looks like an eye looking to the left.

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The Sun Is Giving Us A Spooky Grimace Just In Time For HalloweenAn image of the Sun. a large dark area, a coronal hole, looks like a large mouth, and a bright spot above it looks like an eye looking to the left.
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The Sun Is Giving Us A Spooky Grimace Just In Time For Halloween

clock-iconOctober 29, 2025

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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"A heart-shaped hole in the Sun.

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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"A heart-shaped hole in the Sun.
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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"

clock-iconSeptember 16, 2025
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New Sun Images At 8K Resolution Show Astounding, Never-Before-Seen DetailsTwo images of the same sunspot, a dark region of the sound surronded by an orange hal if filaments pointing inward. Left: Extract from a single image of the Sun, taken with the Vacuum Tower Telescope on Tenerife. Right: High-resolution image restored from 100 individual exposures captured by the new advanced camera system. The details are much sharper.

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New Sun Images At 8K Resolution Show Astounding, Never-Before-Seen DetailsTwo images of the same sunspot, a dark region of the sound surronded by an orange hal if filaments pointing inward. Left: Extract from a single image of the Sun, taken with the Vacuum Tower Telescope on Tenerife. Right: High-resolution image restored from 100 individual exposures captured by the new advanced camera system. The details are much sharper.
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New Sun Images At 8K Resolution Show Astounding, Never-Before-Seen Details

clock-iconMay 22, 2025
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Peer Into The Changing Heart Of A Sunspot In One Of The Highest-Resolution Images Of The SunThe full image of the sunspot revealed many bright cells around long thin darker structure around the dark potato shaped regions of the actual spots. Overlayed an image of the contiguous united states, showing that the size of the spot and how the US would fit five times across the whole image.

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Peer Into The Changing Heart Of A Sunspot In One Of The Highest-Resolution Images Of The SunThe full image of the sunspot revealed many bright cells around long thin darker structure around the dark potato shaped regions of the actual spots. Overlayed an image of the contiguous united states, showing that the size of the spot and how the US would fit five times across the whole image.
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Peer Into The Changing Heart Of A Sunspot In One Of The Highest-Resolution Images Of The Sun

clock-iconApril 25, 2025
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Expect Geomagnetic Storms And Aurora: The Sun Has Reached Solar Maximum, NASA AnnouncesThe Sun as it is today, during the solar maximum period.

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Expect Geomagnetic Storms And Aurora: The Sun Has Reached Solar Maximum, NASA AnnouncesThe Sun as it is today, during the solar maximum period.
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Expect Geomagnetic Storms And Aurora: The Sun Has Reached Solar Maximum, NASA Announces

clock-iconOctober 16, 2024
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Kepler’s Sunspot Sketches Could Solve A Longstanding Solar Mystery Four Centuries LaterKepler's two drawing of the Sun show the sunspot cluster to be different sizes, but agree on the location, which is more important.

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Kepler’s Sunspot Sketches Could Solve A Longstanding Solar Mystery Four Centuries LaterKepler's two drawing of the Sun show the sunspot cluster to be different sizes, but agree on the location, which is more important.
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Kepler’s Sunspot Sketches Could Solve A Longstanding Solar Mystery Four Centuries Later

clock-iconJuly 30, 2024
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Sunspot Behind Stunning Auroras Is Back – And More Solar Storms Could Be AheadSolar flare erupts from the Sun with an Earth for scale

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Sunspot Behind Stunning Auroras Is Back – And More Solar Storms Could Be AheadSolar flare erupts from the Sun with an Earth for scale
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Sunspot Behind Stunning Auroras Is Back – And More Solar Storms Could Be Ahead

clock-iconMay 29, 2024
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Biggest Solar Flare In 2 Decades Released By The Sun, Causing BlackoutsAn image of the Sun at the moment the flare is released

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Biggest Solar Flare In 2 Decades Released By The Sun, Causing BlackoutsAn image of the Sun at the moment the flare is released
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Biggest Solar Flare In 2 Decades Released By The Sun, Causing Blackouts

clock-iconMay 15, 2024
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What Are X-Flares And Should We Be Worried About Them?An X-1.4 flare that exploded on April 24, 2014

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What Are X-Flares And Should We Be Worried About Them?An X-1.4 flare that exploded on April 24, 2014
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What Are X-Flares And Should We Be Worried About Them?

clock-iconFebruary 9, 2024
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The Sun's Poles Are About To Flip. What Will Happen When They Do?The Sun

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The Sun's Poles Are About To Flip. What Will Happen When They Do?The Sun
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The Sun's Poles Are About To Flip. What Will Happen When They Do?

clock-iconFebruary 5, 2024
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Large Hole In The Sun's Atmosphere Sends High-Speed Solar Wind Toward EarthA large sunspot on the surface of the Sun.

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Large Hole In The Sun's Atmosphere Sends High-Speed Solar Wind Toward EarthA large sunspot on the surface of the Sun.
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Large Hole In The Sun's Atmosphere Sends High-Speed Solar Wind Toward Earth

clock-iconDecember 4, 2023
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