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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.
May 2024 solar storms: X1.2(X1.3)-class flares [93] and X4.5-class flare. [94] The flares with a magnitude of 6–7 occurred between 30 April and 4 May 2024. On 5 May the strength of the solar storm reached 5 points, which is considered strong according to the K-index. The rapidly growing sunspot AR3663 became the most active spot of the 25th ...
The peak of Solar Cycle 25 started in January and goes through October, which means we could see more solar flares in the coming months. Solar flares decrease as the sun nears solar minimum.
A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation from the sun associated with sunspots that release magnetic energy out into space, according to NASA. Flares can last several minutes to several hours.
A few days before, on March 6, a very large X15-class solar flare also occurred. [3] Several days later, at 01:27 UT on March 13, a severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth. [4] [5] The storm began on Earth with extremely intense auroras at the poles. The aurora could be seen as far south as Texas and Florida. [6]
A growing body of research is finding evidence of violent solar flares deposited in natural archives like tree rings and glacial ice.. Scientists have so far identified five extreme solar particle ...
The March 1989 geomagnetic storm knocked out power across large sections of Quebec, while the 2003 Halloween solar storms registered the most powerful solar explosions ever recorded. On 23 July 2012, a "Carrington-class" solar superstorm (solar flare, CME, solar electromagnetic pulse) was observed, but its trajectory narrowly missed Earth.
The solar storms of May 2024 (also known as 2024 Mother's Day solar storm [1] or Gannon storm in memory of Jennifer Gannon, [2] a space weather physicist [3]) 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.