The sun showed its enormous power on August 5 with two eruptions of the highest class in two hours, reported TASS and the electronic edition “Space”.
Class X is the highest on the scale for measuring solar storms. The first was at X1.7 strength from the region designated AR3767. It was soon followed by an X1.1 class eruption from AR3780. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the eruptions. The second eruption lasted 14 minutes.
Last weekend, a similar phenomenon caused a strong G3 geomagnetic storm and aurora borealis over parts of the US West Coast. In early May, the solar flares triggered the strongest magnetic storm on Earth since 2005, which was also very long-lasting, reaching the highest magnitude of G5 on the night of May 11.
Specialists from the NASA observatory predict that by the middle of the week, more eruptions are possible from three active regions on the surface of the Sun. Depending on their strength and their direction relative to the Earth, geomagnetic storms are also possible, writes BTA.
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