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A coronal mass ejection from an unseen far-side sunspot just hurled itself into space — NOAA’s GOES-19 spacecraft catching ...

Tonight could bring a rare treat for skywatchers across the northern United States: the northern lights, courtesy of a solar eruption that happened three days ago on the far side of the sun. NOAA’s ...

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The sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), into space. They often occur together with sudden brightenings called flares, and sometimes extend far ...

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On 10 May, most of the instruments on board Ulysses recorded their highest readings during the ten and a half years that the spacecraft has been in orbit. The cause was a spectacular coronal mass ...

The sun is far from quiet. Yesterday, Dec. 17, the sun fired out an 'extremely rare' farside coronal mass ejection (CME) — a vast plume of plasma and magnetic field. According to NASA's Space Weather ...