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 ...
Dang!
The sun has sprung a leak...
We’re doomed!
A blink of the eye in Universal time scale.
And a world full of fools think we can affect our climate!
Will Earth Crust Displacement take place again?
Yes, but not to worry. Before that happens, every person on the planet will have been fried likes ants under a magnifying glass.
Missed more glow bull warming by that much. ππ
A little less.
Not yet, but Revelation16:9.
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