Start your unlimited Newsweek trial A map showing the areas affected by the solar flare, including large parts of the United States. Inset, an image of the solar flare.© NOAA/SWPC/NASA ...

A map showing the areas affected by the solar flare, including the entirety of North America. Inset, an image of the solar flare. NOAA/SWPC/NASA Solar flares can affect us on Earth, and radiation ...

The image below from the Brazilian Solar Atlas, where all the large-scale PV power plants (5 to 1000 MW) are superimposed on the solar irradiation map, shows that most of them are in the region ...

Smoke from ongoing Canadian wildfires has continued to suppress irradiance levels across Canada and the Eastern US into June, with impacts stretching as far as Europe, according to analysis using ...

The latest solar flare follows an M-class one, the second-highest on the scale, that occurred days earlier on June 15. It caused a shortwave radio blackout across North America, with a loss of signal ...