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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
Not one, not two, but THREE X-Class Flares within one 24-hour span! The last one registered X6.3, the strongest since September 2017. This makes it a total of FIVE X-Class Flares in February alone, all within a fortnight.
The Sun Today has a video of the first two flares, with the following screenshot taken from the clip:
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| The Sun Today |
And this is the X6.3:
More details on EarthSky. All three recent X-flares came from the same region AR3590; radio blackout in the regions shown below:
Speculation was rife that the triple X-Flares caused the nation-wide AT&T outage, but the video in EarthSky explained that this wasn't the case.
Also explained here:
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| Space Weather Prediction Centre |
