A powerful solar flare flashed at Earth on Tuesday, sending an eruption of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation to our planet at the speed of light.
A mid-level flare on the Sun, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
That report forecast a chance of more M-class flares in the coming days, with a"slight chance" of another X-class flare on Thursday.from the UK's Met office also warned that more moderate flares are possible over the next two days, due to a large, active group of sunspots facing Earth. Sunspots are small, dark regions where surface temperatures are lower than the surrounding plasma.
Though Tuesday's flare was powerful, it was on the lower end of X-class flares. It was ranked as an X1.2, butIn addition to radio blackouts, flares and otherMore often, though, solar activity triggers energetic displays of Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, sometimes pushing them further south than their normal Arctic occurrence.
More solar flares and eruptions are in store, and will probably increase in frequency, as our star ramps up to
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