NASA astronaut Sunni Williams, one-half Boeing Starliner crew who have been stuck on the International Space Station for months, took part in a spacewalk on Thursday to do some repairs to the orbiting laboratory.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck NASA astronaut Suni Williams steps out on a spacewalk. As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.

Suni Williams stepped out on a spacewalk, her first since arriving at the International Space Station seven months ago