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superflaring sun-like star
Space

Analysis of over 50,000 stars reveals Sun’s ability for massive solar eruptions

Amit Malewar

Solar Superflares once per Century.

image of a solar flare
Space

The Sun emitted X-class solar flare: a strong solar flare

Amit Malewar

SDO captured an image of the event.

This image, taken on Aug. 5, 2023, shows a blend of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the intensely hot material in flares and which is colorized in red and orange. (cr: NASA/GSFC/SDO)
Space

New research uncovers significant number of slow-building solar flares

Amit Malewar

New research by a team led by UC San Diego astrophysics graduate student Aravind Bharathi Valluvan has discovered a significant number of slow-building solar...

3d burning fire
Space

Sun emits most powerful solar flare since 2017

Amit Malewar

Strongest flare of the current solar cycle.

3d view of the sun in space
Space

Scientists have uncovered the physics behind stars’ superflares

Amit Malewar

Producing similar late-phase brightness.

Giant solar eruption
Space

For the first time, a solar eruption detected simultaneously on Earth, the Moon, and Mars

Amit Malewar

Emphasizing the need to prepare human exploration missions for the dangers of space radiation.

image of a solar flare
Space

Sun releases strong X1.0 flare

Amit Malewar

The SDO captured an image of the event.

jets of energetic particles
Space

First close-ups of a source of energetic particles expelled from the Sun

Amit Malewar

Close-up views of energetic particle jets ejected from the Sun.

Image showing solar flare
Space

Lab-grown solar flares offer clues on mechanism behind bursts of high-energy particles

Amit Malewar

Simulating solar flares on a scale the size of a banana.

Image illustrating Coronal Mass Ejection
Science

Researchers look at Coronal Mass Ejection Quasiperiodic variations

Amit Malewar

Scientists used the angular width of CMEs as a criterion for classifying the CMEs in the study.

pulsating radio burst from a solar flare
Space

Mysterious source of ‘Heartbeat-like’ radio bursts discovered in a solar flare

Amit Malewar

The discovery is unexpected.

Spherical gravity figure.
Space

Scientists reproduced a gravity field- 1,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity

Amit Malewar

The study overcomes the effects of Earth’s gravity, replicating conditions on other planets, stars.

Image illustrating solar flare erupting from sun
Space

NASA’s SDO captured a strong solar flare erupting from Sun

Amit Malewar

Sunspot AR3182 is living up to the hype.

Magnetic Reconnection Throughout the Solar System
Science

Scientists recreated small solar flares in large laser bodies

Amit Malewar

Scientists used high-powered lasers to make small solar flares to study magnetic reconnection.

tree ring and flames
Science

Study offer insights into mysterious and potentially devastating kinds of astrophysical event

Amit Malewar

Tree rings offer insight into devastating radiation storms

AR3112
Space

A big dangerous sunspot observed on the sun’s northeastern limb

Amit Malewar

One of the biggest sunspots in years.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
Space

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on Tuesday

Amit Malewar

The flare was rather impulsive.

Image showing explosions from sun
Space

60-years old mystery of Fast Magnetic Explosions solved

Amit Malewar

It’s not just a scientific curiosity.

Image showing solar flare
Space

A double solar flare erupts from Sunspot AR 2993

Pranjal Malewar

A restless sunspot erupted a double solar flare Monday (April 25).

Artist's depiction of the star EK Draconis
Space

Astronomers observed star ejecting a massive burst of energy and charged particles

Amit Malewar

A young, sun-like star may hold warnings for life on Earth.

Solar flare
Space

A long-standing mystery about the Sun solved

Amit Malewar

New solar modeling could help predict space weather.

Solar flare and lightning impact the edge of space in an unexpected way
Science

Solar flare and lightning impact the edge of space in an unexpected way

Amit Malewar

Better understanding the impact on the Earth’s ionosphere will help improve communications.

The secret of working sunquakes might be hidden beneath the solar surface
Space

The secret of working sunquakes might be hidden beneath the solar surface

Amit Malewar

Secrets behind sunquakes could lurk beneath the Sun's corona.

A close-up of one of the loop brightenings
Space

Scientists have captured the full lifecycle of a putative nanoflare

Amit Malewar

This may be the first complete observation of a Nanoflare.

An X-class solar flare
Space

Solar ripples could tell us a lot about flares

Amit Malewar

It may someday help in forecasting the size of solar flares and their severity.

This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (on the right, captured in December 2019). December 2019 marks the beginning of Solar Cycle 25, and the Sun’s activity will once again ramp up until solar maximum, predicted for 2025
Space

The sun has entered its 25th solar cycle

Amit Malewar

Solar Cycle 25 Is Here.

process of solar flare production
Space

First physics-based method for predicting large solar flares

Amit Malewar

A new direction for flare prediction research.

A physics-based method for predicting imminent large solar flares
Space

A physics-based method for predicting imminent large solar flares

Amit Malewar

Predicting large solar flares through a critical condition of magnetohydrodynamic instability.

Shedding new light on solar flares
Space

Shedding new light on solar flares

Amit Malewar

Solar flares are an explosion of energy caused by tangling, crossing, or reorganizing of magnetic field lines near sunspots. In extreme cases, solar flares...

Using data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, UNH researchers observe sun's plasma and energy build up particles released by solar flares - highlighting new phase of energizing process leading to radiation hazards.
Space

Mystery solved: How hazardous space radiation begins?

Amit Malewar

The study highlights a new phase of the energization process that is critical for the formation of radiation hazards.

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