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Focus on solar outbursts

19 November 2003

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Outburst of gas from near the Sun’s south pole. The bright loop is cool, strongly magnetized material being swept away from the Sun. The white ring inside the central mask shows the size of the visible Sun.

Credits: SOHO/LASCO

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SOHO/LASCO movie of a high latitude CME in the North polar region on February 27 2000.

Credits: SOHO/LASCO

A chronicle from SOHO

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Credits: ESA

Still a major challenge

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A blast of gas from the Sun can buffet the Earth's magnetic field.

Credits: ESA

It's official: the biggest solar X-ray flare ever is classified as X28 Another giant solar explosion follows Tuesday’s enormous solar flare Enormous X-ray solar flare seen by SOHO