Solar Flare 2011
A potent solar eruption that triggered an enormous geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication within the following days, NASA stated.
A powerful wave of charged plasma particles emanating in the Jupiter-sized sun spot, one of the most effective observed in 4 years, has by now disrupted radio communication in southern China.
The Class X flash – the most significant this kind of class – erupted at 0156 GMT on Tuesday, based on the US space agency. Geomagnetic storms typically very last 24 to 48 hours – but some could final for a lot of days, go through a statement from the US National Weather Service.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory explained it noticed a substantial coronal mass ejection (CME) related to the flash blasting towards Earth at about 560 miles per second (900 kilometers per second).
The flare spread from Active Region 1158 while in the sun’s southern hemisphere, which had up to now lagged behind the northern hemisphere in flash exercise. It followed many scaled-down flares in latest days.
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