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'A lot has changed': NOAA is rewriting the book on how to rank solar storms
NOAA is researching how to update its Space Weather Scales and how it can better communicate its space weather forecasts with the public and government agencies.
The sun hides its age with magnetic activity
Measurements of the sun's age via oscillations that ripple through it can vary depending on whether those measurements are made near solar minimum or maximum.
The sun might've just had a record-breaking number of visible sunspots
For the first time in more than 20 years, the daily record for sunspots is likely to be broken during Solar Cycle 25.
Intense solar storm opens '2-way highway' for charged particles, sparking rare auroras on the sun
Auroras on Earth occur when storms from our sun engulf our planet. In a rare cosmic feat last April, our planet returned the favor.
Colossal X-class solar flare erupts from 'rule-breaking' sunspot and Earth is in the firing line (video)
Watch a colossal X-class solar flare erupt from the sun's highly magnetized 'rule-breaking' sunspot.
Sun unleashes X-class solar flare, blasts 3rd coronal mass ejection toward Earth in a week (video)
Active sunspot AR3777 fired off the strongest of its three solar flares this week, sending another CME to impact Earth this weekend with a possible geomagnetic storm.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe finds fresh clues to decades-old mystery surrounding the sun
In its search for answers to why our sun's corona is hotter than its surface, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out one explanation.
3 sun mysteries we still haven't cracked
Our understanding of the sun has come a long way in recent decades, but there are still multiple outstanding mysteries that current and future missions hope to solve.
