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7, 2012 – An impressive solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights. Forecasters say the sun erupted Tuesday evening and the effects should start smacking Earth late Wednesday night. But don't go sky-gazing just yet, the colorful glow of flares from the magnetic storm may not make [...]

The sun unleashed a cosmic double whammy Tuesday (March 6), erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption of the year, so far. Both of the huge flares ranked A warm spell and a low-dipping jet stream are fueling [...]

Mr Alexander had been tracking a solar flare since it was reported by Nasa to have erupted from the Sun's surface last Thursday. Auroras occur when ionised particles from the sun hit the earth's atmosphere and react with the gases, in this case oxygen Image: Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare, shown here in teal [...]

There's the possibility of northern lights because of a big solar flare that erupted on Thursday. I doubt we'll see anything as dramatic as this photo, Solar Flare no doubt caused by low taxes and global warming. . Well on our planet where I came from the solar flare was so big it just pushed [...]

More>> Fascinating new images of a solar eruption coming from the Sun. NASA is classifying the blast as an unusual solar flare. Their satellite cameras caught it at its peak Tuesday. A large cloud of charged magnetic particles appeared to be covering A huge solar flare is about to hit earth, but for Tom Hanks [...]

Websites in the Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your John Cetrino / AP The Sun unleashes a medium-sized solar flare, [...]