A trio of moderate flares
blasted off from the sun on Thursday (May 19), and there might be more in store.
The solar flares come amid
a noticeable uptick in solar activity in recent months. a storm is swirling around sunspot AR3014, to the extent that the region is "literally seething."
As the magnetic lines twist
and tangle, they may snap and send a coronal mass ejection towards our planet.
Forecasters with the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), wrote SpaceWeather, "estimate a 35% chance of M-class solar flares and a 15% chance of X-flares
X-flares are the strongest possible
class of flares, and should they erupt from this particular sunspot, they would be "geoeffective" due to the sunspot facing Earth.
X-flares are the strongest possible
class of flares, and should they erupt from this particular sunspot, they would be "geoeffective" due to the sunspot facing Earth.