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The solar storms of May 2024 were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10–13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25. The geomagnetic storm was the most powerful to affect Earth since March 1989 , [ a ] and produced aurorae at far more equatorial latitudes than usual in both ...
Solar cycle 24 (2008–2019) Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in December 2019 with a minimum smoothed sunspot number of 1.8. [ 2 ] It is expected to continue until about 2030. [ 3 ][ 4 ]
Charlotte Phillipp. October 3, 2024 at 6:46 PM. Authorities predict that states as far south as Oregon and Illinois will be able to see auroras between now and Oct. 6. NASA/SDO. NASA’s Solar ...
A satellite observed a strong X7.1 solar flare blasting material from the Sun on Wednesday, the second-strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25, only after the May 14 flare, which was an X8.7, according ...
Powerful solar flare is headed towards Earth, Nasa says. Andrew Griffin. October 3, 2024 at 7:36 AM. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright ...
A solar flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere. Flares occur in active regions and are often, but not always, accompanied by coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, and other eruptive solar phenomena. The occurrence of solar flares varies with the 11-year solar cycle.
The good news is that Earth should be out of the line of fire this time because the flare erupted on a part of the sun moving away from Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the bright flash of the X-ray flare. It was the strongest since 2005, rated on the scale for these flares as X8.7.
Updated October 4, 2024 at 6:26 AM. The Sun emitted the strongest solar flare in seven years Thursday, and space weather forecasters are watching to see what impacts this event has on Earth ...