Further outbursts are expected, as the sunspot AR3165 is growing in strength.
X flares are the most powerful solar flare category; the next level down is the M class, which describes most of Wednesday's observed flares. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured this shot of a solar flare erupting from the sunspot AR3165 on Dec. 14, 2022.
"THREE MORE M FLARES: An M6, M3 and M2 all from AR3165," solar physicisttweeted at about 12:30 p.m. EST ."That makes 8 M flares so far today. They seem to be getting bigger, is an X flare in the offing? Stay tuned.", that recently emerged on the sun's visible disk. Sunspots are darker, cooler areas in the lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere, in which the sun's magnetic field lines are twisted and strained.
CMEs tend to cause more disruption to our technology-dependent world, as they trigger geomagnetic storms in the atmosphere when they interact with it. These storms spawn beautiful
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