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2024-05-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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A powerful flare was recorded on the Sun
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A large ejection of mass directed towards the Earth was recorded on the Sun. It probably became the largest in the current May surge of activity, the joint laboratory of solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported on May 8.
The solar mass ejection was simultaneously recorded by X-ray monitors and direct observations from space coronagraphs. It was preceded by a double solar flare. The first was observed at about five, the second at about eight in the morning Moscow time.
“Both flares had a score around X1. Solar matter, apparently, was ejected during the second explosion,” the laboratory noted.
Solar masses are expected to reach Earth on May 11. They can cause magnetic storms with a power of G2-G3 - medium to strong.
Experts recalled that the Sun has the greatest impact on the Earth when it ejects masses. Possessing enormous kinetic energy, they cause a direct blow to the Earth's magnetic field. Solar flares are assigned one of five classes - A, B, C, M or X - depending on the power of the X-ray emission.
As Regnum reported, in April, the head of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Bogachev, said that in the southern hemisphere of the Sun, on the side facing the Earth, there was an accumulation of flare energy. In such cases, powerful outbreaks occur. Previously, the Sun sharply increased its activity at the end of March, when scientists recorded one of the largest flares in the last 20 years.
On May 2, experts recorded the third strongest magnetic storm since the beginning of 2024. During the night and morning of May 4, five powerful flares occurred on the Sun.
According to Valery Shematovich, a leading researcher at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, several strong storms occurred on the Sun at the end of April - beginning of May, accompanied by emissions of clouds of solar plasma. This is what can explain the appearance of the aurora over the regions of Central Russia.
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