The sun has produced its biggest flare in nearly a decade, days after severe solar storms pummelled Earth and created the dazzling Southern Lights in parts of Australia last week. It was first captured on Tuesday, but it will still be days before it is clear how the latest giant explosion on the sun — blasting energy, light and particles towards Earth — will affect Australia n skies and technology.
said the crew was never in any danger. also added that the last big solar flare caused one of its environmental satellites to rotate unexpectedly because of reduced altitude from the space weather, and entered a hibernation safe-mode. But Tucker said that, in Australia, there were “no effects on the ground”. “Satellite systems were being monitored, and it didn’t seem like there was too much interference. “The radiation is really the stuff that damages the satellites in particular.
’s Solar Dynamics Observatory rated the most recent bright flash, on the scale for these flares, as X8.7 —the strongest since 2005. It follows nearly a week of flares and mass ejections of coronal plasma that have threatened to disrupt power and communications on Earth and in orbit. But Tucker said any potential effects that the X8.
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