The X-class flare—the most powerful that the sun can produce—resulted in a radio blackout across the South Pacific.
A"dangerous" sunspot fired an intense"X-class" solar flare toward Earth, resulting in a radio blackout across the South Pacific region.'s Solar Dynamics Observatory recording the eruption on Friday shortly before 1 a.m. Universal Coordinated Time, or 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday.
This image of the sun was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Friday. A"dangerous" sunspot fired an intense X-class solar flare toward Earth on Thursday.Within each class, solar flares are categorized using an even more detailed scale of strength that runs from 1 to 9. C-class flares and those smaller are too weak to have any noticeable effect on Earth. M-class flares may trigger brief radio blackouts affecting the polar regions and minor radiation storms if they are directed toward Earth.
In the case of the latest solar flare, which was located on the eastern limb, or left side, of the sun, a burst of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation spewed out by the explosion interacted with the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio blackout across the South Pacific shortly afterward.
A large solar flare on the surface of the sun is seen in this image captured in 1974 by Skylab, the first U.S. space station, which was launched by NASA the previous year and is now defunct. The most powerful solar flares are capable of producing as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.Solar flares are often associated with coronal mass ejections—large expulsions of charged particles with an embedded magnetic field from the outermost part of the sun's atmosphere that can cause.
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