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2024-02-24 Science & Technology

Scientists have recorded two new powerful flares on the Sun

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[Regnum] Scientists from the Heliogeophysical Service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics (FGBU IPG) recorded two new powerful flares on the Sun on February 23, one of which belongs to the highest class, TASS reported.

Institute of Applied Geophysics: two powerful solar flares occurred
“At 16:28 Moscow time, an M1.0 flare lasting 42 minutes was recorded in the X-ray range. The outbreak was accompanied by a disruption in HF radio communications. At 01:34 Moscow time, an X6.4/3B flare lasting 35 minutes was detected in the X-ray range,” the institute said in a statement.

According to the latest data, the degree of disturbance in the magnetic field of our planet remains at the level of calm.

As Regnum reported, on the night of February 23, the largest explosion in terms of power since 2017 occurred on the Sun. The flare was classified as X6.3. This was the third powerful burst of activity on the star in less than 24 hours.

On February 22, there were two flares of the highest magnitude X on the Sun. The trajectories of the plasma clouds from the explosions pass by the Earth, but at a fairly close distance. The head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Bogachev, said that such frequent flares indicate the transition of the star to extremely high activity.

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Reports"...the solar flares took place during the night in North America, which means the solar flares did not affect the ionosphere here at any point, so how would the cell phone outages become connected? .... There are indirect ways a solar flare could cause issues with cell phones, but they are geomagnetic in origin, and rely on eruptions and affects to Earth's magnetic field, none of which took place during the outages. It is very likely the cell phone outages are due to something far more simple in AT&Ts network."

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#2 AT&T reveals likely cause of outage that affected customers nationwide

"Based on our initial review, we believe the outage was caused by the application & execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyberattack," AT&T posted on X.

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#3 /\ AT&T comments based on high altitude balloon monitoring was it ?

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#4 None of this will matter once the poles flip.

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