On Thursday (October 28), a large solar flare erupted from the sun in the strongest storm yet in our star’s current weather cycle.
the sun The X1 class flare, the most powerful type of flare, was released at 11:17 a.m. EDT (1517 GMT), according to a warning from the US Space Weather Prediction Group, which released room climate events.
The group warned that the volcanic eruption could disrupt broadband radio communications from high-frequency signals for about an hour. “The impact zone consists of large areas of the sunlit side of the Earth, which is strongest at a point under the sun,” she wrote in a warning email.
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The most powerful Category X explosions can interfere with radio and satellite communications and increase the power of the planet’s aurorae views when aimed directly at Earth and accompanied by a massive outburst of solar particles called coronal mass ejections. Such explosions send charged particles away from the sun at speeds of up to 1 million miles per hour (1.6 million kilometers per hour) or more, and usually take a few days to reach Earth.
Thursday’s glow appears to be coming from a sunspot called AR2887 that is currently at the center of the Sun and is heading toward Earth based on its location. The sunspot was responsible for two intermediate flares of the M flare earlier in the day SpaceWeather.com, which also tracks the sun’s diurnal weather.
A coronal mass ejection from Tuesday’s eruption of AR2887 could trigger a “lightning strike” on Earth sometime on Friday (October 30), You mentioned SpaceWeather.com.
A new active sunspot, dubbed AR2891, recently released an M glow as it orbited around the Earth’s side of the Sun. It is currently making its way across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth, a process that will take about two weeks.
The sun is at the beginning of its current solar cycle, and each lasts 11 years. The current cycle, called Solar Cycle 25, began in December 2019.
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