A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named ...

Solar flares are spectacular, yet potentially dangerous, eruptions of energy from the Sun's surface. They occur when intense magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research career." India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured ...

Among the solar probes in space, the Aidyta-L1 spacecraft is a newcomer. The solar observatory was only launched into space in September 2023 and took up its observation post at the near-Earth ...

India’s first dedicated space based solar mission, Aditya-L1, has made a ground-breaking observation as one of its scientific payloads has captured the first-ever image of a solar flare ...

On November 8th, 2020 the Sun exploded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized ...

India’s Aditya-L1 mission has captured a unique solar event. The spacecraft recorded the first-ever image of a solar flare ‘kernel.’ This rare observation was made in the lower solar atmosphere.

Images from ISRO’s Aditya-L1—India’s first mission to the Sun—reveal a solar flare ‘kernel’ in the lower layers of the atmosphere, according to an analysis. This provides new insights ...