Flare Up The Sun is entering the most active part of its 11-year cycle, unleashing powerful solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and streams of energetic particles toward the Earth. Just earlier this month, a massive hole opened up in the Sun's atmosphere, allowing copious amounts of solar wind to escape. On Thursday, NASA's Solar Dynamics […]
It's not looking good for the third rock station from the sun. The sun just emitted the strongest solar flare in six years, which knocked out radio frequencies and could hit earth in several days time.