Huge Solar Flare Bursting From The Sun Is Second of Its Kind This Week, NASA Says

A powerful solar flare just erupted from the surface of the Sun, and NASA captured stunning footage of it.

The X-class flare, the strongest produced by our star, was recorded by NASA as it burst from a sunspot on the lower left limb of the Sun on Tuesday.

Sunspots are areas on the Sun where powerful magnetic fields are created by the flow of electrical charges. There are bursts of radiation called solar flares and jets of solar coronal mass ejections.

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on May 3, 2022, peaking at 9:25 a.m. ET. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of the event, which was classified as X-class. https://t.co/PMsgdJxMlj pic.twitter.com/PWJUI395Cc

— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) May 3, 2022

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The intensity of the X-rays released by solar flares is used to classify them into A to X levels, with each level having 10 times the intensity of the last.

This is the second flare of this strength to be produced by the Sun this week. The star launched an X2.2 flare on April 19 and an X1.3 on March 30.

Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation, according to NASA.

Radiation from a flare cannot affect humans on the ground, but it can cause problems in the atmosphere where signals travel.

The X-rays and ultraviolet radiation produced by solar flares ionize atoms in our upper atmosphere, making it impossible to bounce high-frequency radio waves from them.

The areas lit by the Sun during the time of a flare are classified into R1 to R5 depending on severity.

The recent flare over the Atlantic Ocean is the same strength as the Easter weekend flare over Australia and Asia.

The sunspot counts have doubled in the last few months, with solar activity which has been known for over 200 years rising and falling according to a roughly 11-year cycle.

The increased activity has sent waves of high-energy plasma and X-ray bursts slamming into Earth's magnetic fields, downing Starlink satellites, triggering radio blackouts, and causing the Auroras as far south as Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Oregon.

The most intense activity may still be ahead. The activity of the Sun is projected to increase before decreasing again.

On the night of a solar storm, the Aurora will be visible much farther south than usual because of the ramp-up in activity.

This is because the waves of highly energetic particles in the Earth's magnetic field cause it to be compressed slightly by the waves of light in the sky.

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