In another example of magnetic muscle flexion, Sleep released a prolonged solar flare on Monday (June 13th) morning. In it, high-energy radiation was launched into space in about three hours. It was a “medium” solar eruption and was registered as M3.4. The incident was also filmed by a camera from two solar spacecraft. The event was captured in multiple wavelengths by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). He has been studying the Sun from Earth’s orbit since 2010.
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The recent outbreak was strong and could lead to a temporary disruption of radio in the Asia-Pacific region of the Earth. The eruption is also associated with coronal mass ejection (CME), which is a large cloud of overheated plasma. CME is released from the Sun at high speed.
LONG-TERM SOLAR EMERGENCY: The rising sunspot AR3032 erupted on June 13 (0407 UT), producing an M3 class solar flare that lasted more than 3 hours. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory records slow-motion explosion: pic.twitter.com/vsDvU8CyBe
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The image of the recent CME explosion was also snapped by the SDO and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). He showed the enormous size and high speed of the plasma cloud. SOHO is a spacecraft launched by NASA or the European Space Agency in 1995.
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Hitting the Earth, large CMEs can cause powerful geomagnetic storms. But this time CME was not leveled with Earth, experts said.
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