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It's the biggest flare of this 11-year solar cycle, which is approaching its peak, according to NOAA. ... The good news is that Earth should be out of the line of fire this time because the flare ...
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.
The sun emits the largest solar flare of this 11-year cycle, as imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on October 3. NASA/SDO NASA says the sun is in the highly active "maximum phase" of its ...
It was observed and recorded independently by British astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson—the first records of a solar flare. A geomagnetic storm of this magnitude occurring today has the potential to cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage due to extended cuts of the electrical power grid. [3] [4] [5]
A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth. Multiple pilots reported communication disruptions, with the impact felt ...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash in the center of the sun’s disk — on October 8. - SDO/NASA An uptick in solar activity
A solar flare from a sunspot region associated with this activity and preceding this period produced the then largest flare detected during the Space Age at about X20 (the first event to saturate spaceborne monitoring instruments, this was exceeded in 2003) but was directed away from Earth. [73] [74] Nov 2001 Geomagnetic storm of November 2001
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 ...