By the Science Desk of India Today: The upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere was ionised by a strong solar explosion, which also caused a significant shortwave radio blackout over southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The solar outburst was caused by sunspot AR3256, which was located close to the star’s southwestern limb.

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which monitors the Sun, recorded the explosion. An X1.2 explosion was identified as this one. The designation X-class designates the strongest fireworks, and the number tells you more about how powerful they are.

When there is an extremely efficient exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment encircling Earth, geomagnetic storms—a significant disturbance of the magnetosphere—occur.

Last week, plasma erupted at a height equivalent to 14 Earths stacked high above the surface of the planet. In the past week alone, the Sun has caused 22 coronal mass ejections, a geomagnetic storm, and four noteworthy solar flares.

The SpaceX capsule, dubbed Endurance, splashed safely down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, at 9:02 pm EST (7:32 am as per Indian standard time), returning two Nasa astronauts, one Japanese astronaut, and one Russian cosmonaut after 157 days in space.

On Saturday, the spaceship carrying the four men from NASA and SpaceX’s five-month Crew-5 mission splashed down off the coast of Florida. They had just returned safely from the International Space Station (ISS).

According to a Nasa blog post, the SpaceX spacecraft, called Endurance, safely descended into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, at 9:02 pm EST (7:32 am in India), returning two NASA astronauts, one Japanese astronaut, and one Russian cosmonaut after spending 157 days in space.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 team, which also consists of four people—NASA astronauts Warren Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev—will complete the mission.

By the Science Desk of India Today: On Monday, four astronauts will be sent to the International Space Station by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The four astronauts will go to the flying laboratory on the Crew Dragon spacecraft for a six-month mission.

In addition to Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates and Andrey Fedyaev of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg of NASA will spend six months doing research in the flying laboratory.

On Musk’s spaceship, a Russian astronaut is being sent into orbit for the second time, but this is the first time an Arab astronaut is participating in the trip.

The astronauts will participate in a number of human physiology experiments and technology advancements targeted at improving future space flight throughout their six-month stay. The experiments are intended to provide a better understanding of the body’s limitations during space travel.