The sun fire off an X - grade solar flare , the most powerful categorisation , this afternoon , from an Earth - facing macula called Active Region 2158 . The flare was powerful enough to cause a free burning blackout of high - frequency wireless communicating here on Earth .
NASA ’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spied the flare this afternoon , commence at 1721 and peaking at 1745 UTC ( 13:21 and 13:45 EDT , respectively ) .
The flare was accompany by a coronal passel ejection ( CME ) . NOAA prognosticator have emerge a geomagnetic storm warning for this Friday , September 12th , whenSpaceWeather.com reportsthe CME is “ expected to deliver a glancing but potent blow to Earth ’s charismatic field ” :
The storm could reach moderate intensity ( G2 - class ) with dawning seeable across northerly - tier US state such as Maine , Michigan , and Minnnesota . Another CME could be conform to tight on its heels if today ’s ten - flare also launched a swarm in our direction . It all adds up to a in high spirits probability of geomagnetic storms in the day ahead .
We ’ll see how this tempest compare tosome of the bigger flareups in late computer storage .
A breathless aurora from Earth ’s large geomagnetic storm in almost 10 years
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