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Sun news UPDATE: Double Bam! The sun releases a 2nd X flare
Sun news February 21, 2024. UPDATE: BAM! X Flare! The huge active region AR3590 blasted an X1.8 flare at 23:07 UTC on February 21. Read more.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
February 22, 2024
Sun

Sun activity archive for February 2024
Sun activity archive for February 2024. A daily record of flaring, big filaments and prominences, and other sorts of activity, on our local star.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
Michael Maimone
February 1, 2024
Sun

Sun activity archive for January 2024
Sun activity archive for January 2024. A daily record of flaring, big filaments and prominences, and other sorts of activity, on our local star.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
Michael Maimone
January 1, 2024
Sun

Sun activity archive for December 2023
Sun activity archive for December 2023. A daily record of flaring, big filaments and prominences, and other sorts of activity, on our local star.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
Michael Maimone
December 1, 2023
Sun

Sun activity archive for November 2023
Sun activity archive for November 2023. A daily record of flaring, big filaments and prominences, and other sorts of activity, on our local star.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
Michael Maimone
November 1, 2023
Sun

Sun activity archive for October 2023
Sun activity archive for October 2023. A daily record of flaring, big filaments and prominences, and other sorts of activity, on our local star.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
Michael Maimone
October 1, 2023

Aurora season: Why more auroras at equinoxes?
An aurora season occurs in October and March each year, due to the way the magnetic fields of the sun and the Earth work in conjunction with sun-Earth geometry.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Deborah Byrd
October 1, 2023
Sun

Sun activity archive for September 2023
Sun activity archive for September 2023. A daily record of flaring, big filaments and prominences, and other sorts of activity, on our local star.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
Michael Maimone
September 30, 2023
Sun

Sun activity archive for August 2023
Sun activity archive for August 2023. A daily record of flaring, big filaments and prominences, and other sorts of activity, on our local star.
C. Alex Young
Raúl Cortés
Armando Caussade
Michael Maimone
August 31, 2023

Sun causing global warming? 2 reasons why not
Is the sun causing global warming? A solar physicist with NASA says no. Read the quick-and-easy-to-understand explanation here.
C. Alex Young
EarthSky Voices
August 23, 2023

About Author

C. Alex Young

C. Alex Young is a solar astrophysicist studying the Sun and space weather. Alex is passionate about sharing science with diverse audiences. This led him to start The Sun Today with his designer wife, Linda. First through Facebook and Twitter then adding an extensive website thesuntoday.org, the two work together to engage the public about the Sun and its role in our solar system. Alex led national engagement efforts for the 2017 total solar eclipse. He is the Associate Director for Science in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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