Powerful X-class solar flare caught on camera erupting from sun's surface

Powerful X-class solar flare caught on camera erupting from sun's surface

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South America

NOAA reported that the astronomical event catalogued at the highest power level could interfere with high frequency communications

A Million-Mile-Long Plasma Twist Just Launched From the Sun—And It’s on Camera

In a dramatic new finding, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter has captured a massive, spiraling jet of solar wind stretching over 1.2 million miles from the Sun’s surface—offering a rare, up-close look at the forces driving our solar system’s space weather. Captured during the spacecraft’s perihelion passage, the swirling stream was observed by the Metis coronagraph and is the subject of a new peer-reviewed study published in The Astrophysical Journal. …

Scientists captured an extremely powerful solar flare on Friday, March 28th