The sun has reached its "solar maximum period," which ... but also light up the sky with brilliant auroras. "It’s official: We have reached solar max phase!" the space agency posted online.

high energy particles emitted by the sun during solar storms and also cosmic rays from outer space and how these things impacts us on Earth. The coming year or two is expected to be a stormy ...

KELOLAND Meteorologist Scot Mundt says that this same process produces a green sky, with the addition of one important ingredient. “It’s caused by the sun’s rays being refracted by the hail ...

The sun, and the intense magnetic activity it generates that causes the northern lights, waxes and wanes on an 11-year-long solar cycle that is at its maximum. Because NASA anticipates the solar ...

Sun dogs. You may have noticed these as a tiny rainbow spot in the sky. I get questions about these ... amount of 22 degrees from a previous Hey Ray about halos. The hexagonal ice crystals that ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The Sun's movement in the sky is quite interesting ... back in the day. Meteorologist Ray Petelin joined the KDKA Weather Team in October 2018, but is no stranger to the ...

Driven by the behavior of the sun's magnetic field, they expel extreme amounts of energy (visible light, X-rays, and beyond) into space. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs): These occur when the sun ...