Watch the Patrouille Suisse light up the evening skies with an unforgettable sunset performance at the Sanicole Airshow. Flying six F-5E Tiger II jets, the Swiss display team delivers precision ...

Hercules performing a spectacular display and flare dump at Antidotum Airshow ...

In May 2024, the largest solar flare since 2017 was detected, ranking at an X-8.7 magnitude. Then in 2025, a flare May 13 was classified as an X-1.2, and another the next day was listed as an X-2. ...

An Earth-facing sunspot has turned into a prolific flare factory, firing off multiple powerful M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours, along with several minor C-class eruptions.

For comparison, an X1 flare is 10 times more powerful than an M1, and 100 times stronger than a C1-class flare. Forecasters are closely watching sunspot region 4114, which remains Earth-facing and ...

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption — and it's heading for Earth.

An X7.1 (R3) solar flare erupted from Region 3842 this evening - as seen in this animation (courtesy of jhelioviewer). This was the second strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25, only bested by an X8.7 ...

The intense solar flare originated from sunspot region AR3869 and unfolded over the span of an hour, reaching its peak at 11:57 p.m. EDT on Oct. 23 (0357 GMT on Oct. 24). Extreme ultraviolet ...

The flare had a magnitude of at least X9, making it the most powerful solar eruption of the current solar cycle — surpassing a monster X8.7 magnitude blast in May.

Well, that was a whopper. Our excitable sun kicked out a solar flare on Thursday that's the biggest since 2017. The eruption of energy from our closest star could possibly trigger spectacular auroras.