Significant Sun Events

NASA reported one of the most powerful flares so far this year on the 2nd of this month, the event produced a giant sunspot called AR3354, this spot grew to a size larger than Earth in just 48 hours.

Solar flares are large explosions on the surface of the sun and their plasma injections can affect communications in many regions, mainly the one found in the northern and southern hemispheres; being affected the energy networks of the cities, the GPS and navigation systems, and of course the space stations and their crews.

The call was classified at level X 1.0, where the X means the most powerful flashes and the number indicates the proportion of their strength.

But they have pointed out that it produced these events and it is something very curious, the flare did not arise alone, it had help, help from adjacent events, specifically from a column of plasma that rose from the sun, formed an arc and rushed over the Giant sunspot.

Experts believe that this jet of magnetized gas was the one that ended up triggering the powerful explosion, the radiation from the flare that travels the speed of light and therefore takes about 8 minutes to reach the earth caused an ionization of the upper part of the terrestrial atmosphere, what this caused was a deep radio blackout where it shortens in parts of the United States and the Pacific Ocean just the Red Zone that you see on the map.

Luckily this time there was no coronal mass injection, which is a cloud of plasma and energetically charged particles that flares usually expel, this time there was no expulsion, that type of cloud takes a couple of days without reaching the orbit of our planet and They are the ones that end up causing solar storms or geomagnetic storms, if they come in our direction because they do not sow correctly, for example the last injection of coronal mass passed by without hitting us but hit Venus and Mars squarely.

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