Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

Meanwhile, the longer, bigger flares may occur due to magnetic reconnection events, or when two different magnetic fields collide near the black hole and release energetic particles moving near ...

Yusef-Zadeh attributes the big, bright flares to magnetic reconnection events—a process where two magnetic fields collide, releasing energy in the form of accelerated particles. Traveling at ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) says that just one week in space is equivalent to one year's worth of radiation exposure on Earth. This radiation can put astronauts at risk of radiation sickness, ...

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation ... adding the sun has lots of energy and small particles, many of which the planet’s magnetic field offers protection from, but “During one ...

And that's great news for northern lights skywatchers. Earth's magnetic field affected by the sun's solar flares We are protected from the solar winds − streams of charged particles ejected from the ...

Yusef-Zadeh attributes the big, bright flares to magnetic reconnection events -- a process where two magnetic fields collide, releasing energy in the form of accelerated particles. Traveling at ...