The Sun
emitted a significant solar flare on March 30, 2022, peaking at 1:35 p.m. EST.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured
an image of the event.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the top right portion of the image – on March 30, 2022. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in yellow (AIA 171).
Solar flares are powerful bursts of
energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric
power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.
This flare is classified as an X-Class
flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more
information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is
three times as intense, etc. More info on how flares are classified can be
found here.
To see how such space weather may affect
Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center https://spaceweather.gov/, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts,
watches, warnings, and alerts. NASA works as a research arm of the nation’s space weather effort.
NASA observes the Sun and our space environment constantly with a fleet of
spacecraft that study everything from the Sun’s activity to the solar
atmosphere, and to the particles and magnetic fields in the space surrounding
Earth.
Source: Significant
Solar Flare Erupts From Sun – Solar Cycle 25 (nasa.gov)
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