NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

In the early hours of Tuesday (April 23), quadruple solar flares near-simultaneously exploded from across the sun's surface, and there's a good chance that one of these outbursts launched a solar ...

"Today's sympathetic flare was not a simple pair but a complex quartet covering much of the sun's Earth-facing hemisphere," the site explained. "This makes it "super-sympathetic."" They're not ...

a trio of X-class flares erupted from the sun measuring at X1.7, X1.3 and a whopping X8.7, the largest solar flare of the current 11-year solar cycle. "Region 3664 produced yet ANOTHER X-ray flare ...

All-told, the super-sympathetic flare encompassed about a third of the sun’s total surface facing Earth. [Related: Why our tumultuous sun was relatively quiet in the late 1600s] And that ...

"Super flares" are produced by stars that are 100–10,000 times brighter than those on the sun. The physics are thought to be the same between solar flares and super flares: a sudden release of ...

Such mighty solar flares are often accompanied with events called "coronal mass ejections," or CMEs, which are massive ejections of super hot gas (like throwing a chunk of the sun into space).

"Superflares are produced by stars that have very strong magnetic fields and therefore are associated with more violent activity than our Sun," Yardley said. "However, super flares do happen on ...

The sun brought us to the new year with a X5-class solar flare, or a super-flare, the most intense in 23 years. It was not facing the earth but could still cause satellite and radio problems.

New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. By Katrina Miller Our sun is a violent place. Bursts of radiation ...

And they're localized magnetic stressed areas and the sun that can produce these big eruptions and when the eruptions occur solar flares, coronal mass ejections, energetic particle events ...