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The geomagnetic storms need to be really intense, like on Friday, for the northern lights to be visible here and that short window of notice makes it nearly impossible to plan a trip around seeing them.
Ali Ingersoll, WRAL Investigative Data Journalist
Consumer Reports tests dozens of sunscreens every year to determine which ones provide the best protection against sunburn and skin cancer.
Keely Arthur, WRAL consumer reporter
Here's a look at what would happen if we didn't have leap years.
There are a number of weather phenomena that can create the appearance of a ring around the sun.
WRAL Severe Weather Center
This weekend, millions of people are hoping to catch a glimpse of the latest celestial event -- the so-called "ring of fire." A spectacular solar eclipse will cross the skies of the U.S., and here's how you can see it Saturday in North Carolina.
Photo: Jeff Meddin
Activity in the Sun's atmosphere and surface is seen visibly in 171 angstroms (left) and magnetically (right) by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory Advanced Imaging Assembly and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager instruments on June 2, 2023.
A geomagnetic storm approaching strong levels is expected to reach Earth Sunday night, peaking around midnight. If the weather cooperates, aurora could be visible on the northern horizon.
Tony Rice, NASA Ambassador
Earth's orbit isn't quite round. Perihelion, the point where it is closest to the Sun comes around January 4 each year.
Earth is at aphelion, the furthest point from the Sun in its not-quite-circular orbit, on July 4, 2022. On January 4 we'll be 3.1 million miles closer at perihelion.
The Solar Orbiter mission will make its closest flyby of the sun Saturday since launching in February 2020.
By Ashley Strickland, CNN
If you find yourself out this evening look north for a faint green cast to the sky.
While it may seem odd that the Sun is at its farthest during the summer, that distance has relatively little impact on temperatures.
There are 24 hours in a day for everyone, but on the summer solstice the day is harder on some than on others.
Jesus Jiménez, New York Times
A question about solar flares and changing Earth's orbit and what role they might play in climate change from a congressman during a House committee meeting have prompted confusion.
The moon will slide right in front of the sun on June 10, 2021, causing an annular solar eclipse.
Auroral activity was forecasted to be visible as far south as North Carolina Thursday night, the result of a solar storm earlier in the week.
Researchers track sunspots using the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) focuses on the movement and magnetic properties of the sun's surface . Image: SDO/NASA, Rice
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) images the Sun's atmosphere in several wavelengths, here the 191 Angstrom wavelength emitted by iron-9 at more than 1 million degrees is shown. Image: SDO/NASA
Looking at the Sun's atmosphere in wavelengths emitted by iron-9 molecules using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), activity is at its greatest near solar maximum when sunspot counts are highest. Image: SDO/NASA, Rice
A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun, revealing countless little "campfires" flaring everywhere.
Huge solar flares and the sunspots that they emanate from could be an indicator that the Sun has reached a minimum in its 11-year cycle.
We'll have a nice rest of the weekend but be on the lookout for showers in the forecast on Tuesday.
The Trump administration said Thursday heat, light and humidity may speed up the killing of the coronavirus.
Whales are stranding themselves and scientists want to know why. A Duke Ph.D. candidate published a study that suggests radio noise from solar storms may blind whales' natural magnetoreceptors causing them to steer off course.
Tony Rice, WRAL contributor/NASA ambassador
