When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption from sunspots AR3614 and AR3615 may be an example of it. One of the flares was ...

Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th ...

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar ...

Sunspots are cooler, planet-size regions of strong magnetic fields on the surface of the sun. Explore sunspots in more detail with our comprehensive guide.

Experts have advised people to monitor reliable sources like NASA and NOAA for updates on solar activity and space weather.

Most sunspots are a few thousand kilometers across and too small to see without aid from binoculars or a telescope. But some grow to enormous size, tens of thousands of kilometers across or more.

Sunspots have a cooler temperature of 8,000 degrees. Murray says if you could take the darker color of a sunspot and bring it to Earth, it would still be way too bright to look at.

Sunspots are indicative of magnetic disturbances in our star, they appear as dark patches on the surface of the sun and can be as big as Earth. Their presence is a clue to where the sun is in its ...

However, these three sunspots have a 40 percent chance of triggering dangerous M-class solar flares, which are medium-sized and can cause brief radio blackouts around Earth’s polar regions.

Before this summer, the number of sunspots have been below the average. As far as coronal mass ejections from the sun, the data shows 31 storms impacted Earth last year. This year, Earth is ...