Posted on 04/18/2022 12:52:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Sunday, a strong shortwave radio blackout occurred over southeast Asia and Australia due to a solar flare hurled from the sun. Seems like Solar activity is again picking up pace after a geomagnetic storm hit earth. It is interrupted that the sun is likely to erupt with more flares this week.
The X1 class flare was accompanied by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from a cluster of active sunspots that have produced significant flaring prior to appearing on the eastern limb of the sun. CMEs are huge bubbles of radiation and particles from the sun. They explode into space at very high speed when the sun’s magnetic field lines suddenly reorganize. Big flares can cause major disruptions on the earth.
Earlier, From Region 2994 and 2993 the flare that originated caused a brief radio blackout and was classified as a Type II solar radio burst.
According to spaceweather.com, the sunspot complex AR2993-94, produced an X1-class solar flare on April 17, maybe just the beginning. Another potentially large active region is right behind it. The sunspots appeared on Sunday and Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory is tracking its progress.
"This sunspot group has been active for more than a week, hurling CMEs and plumes of plasma into space from its location on the far side of the sun. Now it is turning to face earth and shows no signs of slowing down," the space observer said.
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The same sunspot that produced the X-class flare last week may produce more, there was an M1 earlier today and more to come.
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