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| EarthSky |
At this time of writing, we've had 25 X-class Solar Flares since this phenomenal year of 2024 commenced. Out of those 25, nineteen of them occurred during the month of May alone, and we still have 12 more days before the month ends.
Guess how many X-class flares we had in the entire year of 2023?
12!
Here's a list of those 25, thanks to SpaceWeatherLive, please visit the page to view the entire chart (Top 50 Solar Flares), which includes the highest 25 M-class flares as well:
This list also tells us that there have been 7 M9-class flares so far.
For anyone interested, here's the page for 2023's top 50 flares.
After that almost 40-hours of geomagnetic storming from 10-12 May, we've had a couple more periods of storms ~ however, these were fairly brief and not as strong.
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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
EarthSky has a video of this incredible filament that erupted out of our Sun's southern hemisphere today, and its resulting CME ~ screenshot at the top of this post.
That minuscule dot represents the size of Earth....
Namarie! 💟
