Australia and New Zealand experience hard times!
Unforeseen sun oriented flare crushes into Earth, causing radio power outages in Australia and New Zealand.
A sudden solar flare has erupted from a region of dense magnetism on the surface of the sun, resulting in a brief radio blackout in parts of Australia and New Zealand. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the M5-class, medium-strength solar flare as it erupted from the sunspot AR3141 at 7:11 p.m. ET on Sunday. The flare made a surge of radiation that ionized Earth's air, as per spaceweather.com.
Australia and New Zealand experience hard times!
A rather unexpected M5.2 solar flare (R2-moderate) erupted this night at 00:11 UTC. Sunspot region 3141 was its source. Our apologies there was no alert for this event. The flare was impulsive and released a minor coronal mass ejection that is not aimed at Earth. pic.twitter.com/Sengj5Z4AN
— SpaceWeatherLive (@_SpaceWeather_) November 7, 2022
Sunspots are dark areas on the surface of the sun where the flow of electrical charges creates powerful magnetic fields that twist and turn before suddenly snapping. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and bursts of radiation known as solar flares are the results of the energy release that follows. This flare did contain a CME, but it did not target Earth.Scientists were taken aback when the solar flare broke out on their own.We regret that there was no notification of this event. SpaceWeatherLive, a website that monitors solar activity, wrote on Twitter, "The flare was impulsive."
Based on the intensity of the X-rays they release, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) divides solar flares into five categories: A, B, C M, and X. Each level has ten times the intensity of the previous one. TK When solar flares reach Earth, X-rays and ultraviolet light ionize atoms in our upper atmosphere, making it impossible to bounce high-frequency radio waves off of them and causing a radio blackout.
