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.