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The Sun certainly had a busy weekend.
Not only did our star launch several M-class missiles. Solar flarescoronal mass ejections (eruptions of solar magnetic field and plasma), but now it has all culminated in a massive X-class solar flare.
the The eruption has reached its peak. On July 28 at 10:33 p.m. EDT (0233 GMT on July 29), a shortwave radio outage occurred across the sunlit portion of the Earth at the time of the eruption, which included most of Asia and Australia.
Solar flares are eruptions of the sunThese flares release intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation onto the surface of the Sun. These flares occur when magnetic energy built up in the Sun’s atmosphere is suddenly released.
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Radiation from solar flares reaches Earth when The speed of lightwhich ionizes the upper atmosphere upon arrival. This ionization creates a denser environment for high-frequency shortwave radio signals that facilitate long-distance communications. However, when these radio waves interact with Electrons In the ionized layers, energy is lost due to increased collisions, which can cause radio signals to degrade or be completely absorbed.
This loss of signal was observed across much of Asia and Australia during the recent X-flare eruption.
Solar flares are classified by size into different classes, with X-class flares being the most powerful. M-class flares are about ten times less powerful than X-class flares, followed by C-class flares, which are about ten times weaker than M-class flares. B-class flares are about ten times weaker than C-class flares, and A-class flares are about ten times weaker than B-class flares and have no noticeable effect on LandEach class is divided into numbers from 1 to 10 (and more for X-class missiles) to indicate the relative power of the missiles.
The sudden solar flare on July 28/29 was measured at magnitude 1.5 according to Live Space Weatherwhere it erupted from the region of sunspot 3764. Meteorologists have not yet determined whether there was a solar eruption directed toward Earth. Continuing Medical Education Accompany the solar flare According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction CenterScientists are awaiting coronagraph images to determine whether a coronal mass ejection directed toward Earth followed this activity.
If that happens, it won’t be the only CME on its way. There are several CMEs currently on their way to Earth, and they are: It is expected to start arriving on July 30.Their presence could create strong geomagnetic storm conditions and Aurora Borealis In the middle latitudes.
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