Major Magnetic Storm on Sun to ‘Bombard’ Earth on Saturday, Scientists Warn
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre issued a geomagnetic storm warning on Friday in the wake of a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) event on Thursday, which released clouds of supercharged solar particles into space in the direction of Earth.
Major Magnetic Storm on Sun to ‘Bombard’ Earth on Saturday, Scientists Warn
Thursday’s massive X-class flare eruption on the Sun is expected to reach Earth on Saturday, and could wreak havoc on a range of manmade solar radiation-sensitive devices, the X-Ray Astronomy of the Sun Lab at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics has warned.
“One of the largest and perhaps the largest burst of solar activity in recent years is currently taking place on our Sun. Over the past day, fourteen flares, including two M-class flares (strong) and one maximum X-class flare (especially strong) have been recorded,” the Lab said in a statement on Friday
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre issued a geomagnetic storm warning on Friday in the wake of a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) event on Thursday, which released clouds of supercharged solar particles into space in the direction of Earth.
Major Magnetic Storm on Sun to ‘Bombard’ Earth on Saturday, Scientists Warn
Thursday’s massive X-class flare eruption on the Sun is expected to reach Earth on Saturday, and could wreak havoc on a range of manmade solar radiation-sensitive devices, the X-Ray Astronomy of the Sun Lab at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics has warned.
“One of the largest and perhaps the largest burst of solar activity in recent years is currently taking place on our Sun. Over the past day, fourteen flares, including two M-class flares (strong) and one maximum X-class flare (especially strong) have been recorded,” the Lab said in a statement on Friday