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The Sun Just Unleashed the Strongest Solar Flare in Almost Five Years [Not Towards Earth]
CNET ^ | April 23, 2022 9:23 a.m. PT | Eric Mack

Posted on 04/23/2022 2:14:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The worst of this one will miss us, but it is a hint of what's to come.

The eruption came from a sunspot on the western limb of our local star, and represents the most powerful solar flare seen since 2017.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory observed the blast at 8:57 p.m. PT on Tuesday, causing a radio blackout for certain shortwave, aviation and other communications centered on Asia.

The flare was classified as an X2.2. X-class flares are the strongest category measured by scientists, and higher numbers following the X represent an increase in the power of the eruption. NASA recorded a few X1 flares in the past year, but this is the strongest seen since the sun blasted off a pair of monster X-class flares, including an X9, in the second week of September 2017.

The strongest flare ever observed was in excess of X28, in 2003.

The big blast is the latest indication our current solar cycle is heating up. Our star goes through regular periods of high sunspot and flare activity roughly every decade or so. We are currently building toward a peak of activity that will come around the middle of the 2020s.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: carringtonevent; cme; coronalmassejection; sida; solarflare

1 posted on 04/23/2022 2:14:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Dang!
The sun has sprung a leak...
We’re doomed!


2 posted on 04/23/2022 2:17:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: BenLurkin

A blink of the eye in Universal time scale.


3 posted on 04/23/2022 2:18:38 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

And a world full of fools think we can affect our climate!


4 posted on 04/23/2022 2:23:20 PM PDT by rellic
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To: BenLurkin

Will Earth Crust Displacement take place again?


5 posted on 04/23/2022 2:31:55 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: immadashell

Yes, but not to worry. Before that happens, every person on the planet will have been fried likes ants under a magnifying glass.


6 posted on 04/23/2022 2:54:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: BenLurkin

Missed more glow bull warming by that much. πŸŒ‡πŸŒ‹


7 posted on 04/23/2022 3:14:31 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? πŸ˜•)
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8 posted on 04/23/2022 3:22:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: BenLurkin

A little less.


9 posted on 04/23/2022 3:23:33 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? πŸ˜•)
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To: BenLurkin

Not yet, but Revelation16:9.


10 posted on 04/23/2022 4:33:48 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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