Sun erupts with flares on Easter Sunday.
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The sun unleashed a major solar flare over the Easter holiday weekend, setting the stage for more solar storms to come.
The Easter solar flare peaked late Saturday. A massive sun eruption, known as a coronal mass ejection, was followed by an hour later, according to the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center. The X-class sun storms are the most powerful ones on the sun and the flare lasted 34 minutes.
Since it appeared on the eastern limb of the sun, the flare originated from a cluster of active sunspots.
The agency wrote in an update that solar activity is expected to be active over the next week as sunspots migrate across the visible disk.
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According to the SWPC, the Easter solar flare spawned a brief radio blackout and was classified as a Type II solar radio burst.
"Such bursts are produced by shock waves in the leading edges of CMEs," astronomer Tony Phillips of Spaceweather.com wrote in an update. Because the eruption occurred at the very eastern limb of the sun, the coronal mass ejection it spawned is likely not directed at Earth, Phillips wrote.
The strongest types of storms on the sun are X-class solar flares. A-class storms are the weakest, while B- and C-class storms are moderate. The strongest storms can pose a risk to satellites and astronauts if they aim directly at Earth.
There were several flares from different sunspot regions in the last few weeks, including an X1.3-class solar storm on March 30 and several C-class and M-class flares from different sunspot regions.
The current solar weather cycle is known as Solar Cycle 25 and began in 2019. NASA, the SWPC and other solar scientists keep track of space weather from the sun with a series of spacecraft.
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