When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently, Spanish astronomers found the writings of a little-known teenager who made an ...

“The case of Valderrama is very unique, as he was the only person in the world more than a century ago to observe a relatively rare phenomenon: a white-light solar flare. And until now no one ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A massive flare that exploded from the solar surface in March unleashed the highest-energy light ever seen during a sun eruption, scientists say. On March 7, the sun let ...

Solar white-light flares are a type of flare that exhibits enhanced radiation in the visible light continuum spectrum. These flares typically have high energy and can have an impact on space ...

More than a century ago, 17-year-old Juan Valderrama y Aguilar turned to his notebook to draw a powerful white-light flare that was blasting off the sun's surface and casting a shadow near a sunspot, ...

"The case of Valderrama is very unique, as he was the only person in the world more than a century ago to observe a relatively rare phenomenon: a white-light solar flare. And until now no one had ...