A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense X8.3 eruption.
A CME was not produced from the solar flare, which removes the chance for a geomagnetic storm to impact Earth and create auroras. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Fired from a vast sunspot, the "coronal mass ejection" is expected to reach Earth on either Thursday or Friday this week.