TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Sun spots big again happened. This time, it was nearly three times the size of Earth and the radiation of the blast was within Earth’s reach. The explosion may be imminent, releasing a mid-range flare.
“Yesterday the AR3038 sunspot was huge. Today it was huge,” wrote Tony Phillips, author at SpaceWeather.comWednesday, June 22, 2022.
Sunspots are said to grow fast and have doubled in just 24 hours. If there was a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the sunspot, the charged particles facing Earth would interact with Earth’s magnetic field and create a colorful glow in the atmosphere known as aurora.
However, the Center for Space Weather Prediction at the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which monitors solar outbursts and other flares, has not issued any aurora warnings to watch out for on Earth.
What is clear is that the Sun’s activity is very active this spring. The star in this solar system sends out many M and X class (strongest class) explosions just in time for the 11-year cycle of activity of the sunspots.
Typically, CMEs are harmless and may produce brief radio outages along with colorful aurorae. However, on rare occasions, CMEs can disrupt critical infrastructure such as satellites or power lines.
That’s why the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration and NOAA monitor the sun around the clock. In addition, the Parker Solar Probe mission NASA periodically fly very close to the sun to learn more about the origin of sunspots and to better understand the extraterrestrial weather that the sun creates.
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