Solar Flare 2024 8 April. Powerful outbursts from the sun—like this bright, flashing solar flare and the adjacent eruption of hot glowing gas—can wreak havoc with earth's power grids, computers and telecommunications. At any location the universal times of first contact (the beginning of partial.

Watch the solar eclipse across the path of totality. On april 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will give us a rare chance to see the sun’s magnificent corona.