{"id":3322,"date":"2022-05-11T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2022-05-11T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:55:27","slug":"x-class-solar-flare-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/11\/x-class-solar-flare-3\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Class Solar Flare…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update:<\/strong>\u00a0The sunspot *did* flare today. An X1.5 class explosion on May 10th (1355 UT) caused a radio backout over the Atlantic Ocean and may have hurled a complicated CME toward Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE:<\/strong>\u00a0“Mixed-up” sunspot AR3006 (described below) exploded on May 10th (1355 UT), producing an intense\u00a0X1.5-class<\/a>\u00a0solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio blackout around the Atlantic Ocean:\u00a0blackout map<\/a>. Radio transmissions at frequencies below ~30 MHz were attenuated for more than an hour after the flare.
Since the flare occurred, a mish-mash of CMEs has billowed away from the sun’s southern hemisphere. It is unclear if these CMEs are related to the X-flare or instead some other, lesser explosions that happened at almost the same time. There was\u00a0a filament eruption<\/a>\u00a0to the right of the X-flare, and\u00a0a C4-class solar flare<\/a>\u00a0in a different sunspot to the left. NOAA analysts are busy unraveling these events using computer models to determine if one of the CMEs might hit Earth. Stay tuned.\u00a0Solar flare alerts:<\/strong>\u00a0SMS Text<\/a>

A MIXED-UP SUNSPOT:\u00a0<\/strong>Sunspot AR3006 is having an identity crisis. It is supposed to have a +\/- magnetic field. Mostly it does. But deep inside the sunspot’s primary core, the polarity is opposite: -\/+. Note the circled region in this magnetic map of the sunspot from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Update:\u00a0The sunspot *did* flare today. An X1.5 class explosion on May 10th (1355 UT) caused a radio backout over the Atlantic Ocean and may have hurled a complicated CME toward Earth. X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE:\u00a0“Mixed-up” sunspot AR3006 (described below) exploded on Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}