It’s one of the biggest solar flares in years, and it’s coming this way.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images on Wednesday of the most powerful flare recorded since at least 2008, when the current solar cycle began.
It’s one of the biggest solar flares in years, and it’s coming this way.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images on Wednesday of the most powerful flare recorded since at least 2008, when the current solar cycle began.
Solar cycles are 11-year periods when the sun’s activity waxes and wanes, the space agency said.
Despite the flare’s power, the sun is actually in a period of waning activity.
“We are heading toward solar minimum, but the interesting thing about that is you can still have events, they’re just not as frequent,” Rob Steenburgh, a scientist at NASA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, told Space.com. “We’re not having X-flares every day for a week, for instance ― the activity is less frequent, but no less potentially strong.”
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