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The event occurred in 2012, near the local maximum of sunspots that can be seen in this graph.. At 02:08 UT on 23 July 2012, a large coronal mass ejection (CME) was launched from the Sun. [3] The eruption emanated from solar active region 11520 and coincided with what was at most an X2.5-class solar flare. [4]
M-class flares are a tenth the size of X-class flares with the same numeric suffix. [23] An X2 is four times more powerful than an M5 flare. [24] X-class flares with a peak flux that exceeds 10 −3 W/m 2 may be noted with a numerical suffix equal to or greater than 10. This system was originally devised in 1970 and included only the letters C ...
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By MORGAN WHITAKER New video released by NASA Thursday captures the spectacular instant the sun fired off a solar flare in Earth's direction. The video shows the coronal mass ejection that created ...
Our life-giving death star is experiencing its "solar maximum," which sounds like the name of a Christian rock band and is defined as the peak activity period within the sun's 11-year solar cycle.
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 ...
English: Active Region 1515 released an X1.1 class flare from the lower right of the sun on July 6, 2012, peaking at 7:08 PM EDT. This flare caused a radio blackout, labeled as an R3 on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations scale that goes from R1 to R5. Such blackouts can cause disruption to both high and low level radio ...
Solar flares strongly influence space weather near the Earth. They can produce streams of highly energetic particles in the solar wind, known as a solar proton event. These particles can impact the Earth's magnetosphere in the form of a geomagnetic storm and present radiation hazards to spacecraft and astronauts. A solar flare