March 23, 2024
Big Solar Flare Coming
Roy W. Spencer
A strong X-class solar flare lasting 5 hours has erupted on the sun, lifting a coronal mass ejection (CME) with an Earth-directed component (play the right-hand video in the link, 1st comment, to see the CME near the end of the clip). March is a peak month for auroras, and this should be a good one in the coming days.
LASCO Coronagraph | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
swpc.noaa.gov
... the flare was unusual in that it involved two widely-separated sunspots than became magnetically connected during the flare.
A strong X-class solar flare lasting 5 hours has erupted on the sun, lifting a coronal mass ejection (CME) with an Earth-directed component (play the right-hand video in the link, 1st comment, to see the CME near the end of the clip). March is a peak month for auroras, and this should be a good one in the coming days.
LASCO Coronagraph | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
swpc.noaa.gov
... the flare was unusual in that it involved two widely-separated sunspots than became magnetically connected during the flare.
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