A powerful X-class solar flare hit Earth earlier this week, leading to an hour of radio blackouts in certain parts of the world.
Earth was hit by a massive X-class solar flare, creating an hour-long radio blackout in parts of southeast Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. The flare left the Sun at roughly 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening before traveling towards our planet and colliding with Earth’s upper atmosphere. , the powerful X-class flare exploded from a sunspot called AR3256. Footage of the flare was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the video can be seen in the ESA’s tweet below.
This massive X-class flare isn’t the first of its kind to leave the Sun behind in recent months, or even the only one to. The number of X-class solar flares erupting from our solar system’s star is only going to increase as the solar cycle draws closer to its peak – when the Sun is at its most volatile. This cycle lasts roughly 11 years, and we’re nearing the peak of the cycle, when solar activity is at all-time highs.
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