Medicine & TechnologyWhile storms wreak havoc throughout Europe and North America this week, the sun has been undergoing a period of high activity, with repercussions that may be seen on Earth on Wednesday.
The Sunspot AR29 eruption, generating a powerful M5.5-class solar flare, which has been recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory of NASA in an extreme ultraviolet flash, has recently been reported.
From one of the biggest geomagnetic storms in history that hit roughly 150 years ago, humans have learned and developed countermeasures that experts believe will prepare us for any future events.
Flights and the electricity grid might be impacted by a solar storm caused by the 'cannibal' sun outburst. Experts claim that neither airline employees nor passengers would be harmed.
This weekend, a beautiful aurora, often known as the northern lights, might be visible in several northern states as Earth is expected to be hit by a "strong" geomagnetic storm.
The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently posted on Twitter two views of the Sun as it fired off a major solar flare.
The new 11-year solar cycle of the Sun began in December 2019, which features a number of sunspots and eruptions like the one recently recorded on the Sun's surface facing away from Earth.