• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Sunspot Behind Stunning Auroras Is Back – And More Solar Storms Could Be Ahead

May 29, 2024 by Deborah Bloomfield

Somehow, Sunspot AR 3664 has returned. OK, not somehow. It simply moved around the Sun as the Sun orbits on its axis – but we wanted to do a Star Wars reference. Because, just like Palpatine, AR 3664 has put on a light show. It was responsible for the solar flares and coronal mass ejections that led to the spectacular auroral display a few weeks ago.

Advertisement

Now, the sunspot has greatly diminished and it is not as imposing as it was at the beginning of the month. But it is still showing that we should not underestimate it. NASA reports that it released an X 2.8 flare two days ago, not as powerful as what this spot was able to release in the past month, but still among the most powerful this solar cycle so far.

Advertisement

“Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts,” NASA said in a statement.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Space Weather Prediction Center currently warns of limited radio interference and power grid fluctuations, but mostly the event did not affect our planet as it was off to the side. Things might be different in the coming days. The sunspot might finally peter out not with a bang but with a whimper, or it might have one or several more flashes before disappearing.

Predicting solar activity is a very important job because infrastructure can be severely damaged. But we do not know enough about the Sun to have long-term forecasting or know when a series of coronal mass ejections will be released. The Sun is observed and scientists work out what will happen in the next several hours.

When AR 3664 released those flares and coronal mass ejections earlier this month, the Space Weather Prediction Center estimated it would create a severe geomagnetic storm before revising it to extreme once it got here, leading to the spectacular aurorae and some telecommunication issues that are being investigated.

Advertisement

The activity of the Sun is not expected to slow down for the next several months. We are around the solar maximum – the peak of activity in the roughly 11-year-long cycle that the Sun goes through. It could be that the best of Solar Cycle 25 is yet to come.  

Deborah Bloomfield
Deborah Bloomfield

Related posts:

  1. Biden nominee for key China export post expects Huawei to remain blacklisted
  2. New Images From Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant Are Causing Big Worries
  3. 100-Year Floods May Be Looming If We Don’t Change Our Ways
  4. Disk Called “Dracula’s Chivito” Has The Largest Collection Of Planet-Making Materials Ever Found

Source Link: Sunspot Behind Stunning Auroras Is Back – And More Solar Storms Could Be Ahead

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

  • Project Hail Mary Trailer First Look: What Would Happen If The Sun Got Darker?
  • Newly Discovered Cell Structure Might Hold Key To Understanding Devastating Genetic Disorders
  • What Is Kakeya’s Needle Problem, And Why Do We Want To Solve It?
  • “I Wasn’t Prepared For The Sheer Number Of Them”: Cave Of Mummified Never-Before-Seen Eyeless Invertebrates Amazes Scientists
  • Asteroid Day At 10: How The World Is More Prepared Than Ever To Face Celestial Threats
  • What Happened When A New Zealand Man Fell Butt-First Onto A Powerful Air Hose
  • Ancient DNA Confirms Women’s Unexpected Status In One Of The Oldest Known Neolithic Settlements
  • Earth’s Weather Satellites Catch Cloud Changes… On Venus
  • Scientists Find Common Factors In People Who Have “Out-Of-Body” Experiences
  • Shocking Photos Reveal Extent Of Overfishing’s Impact On “Shrinking” Cod
  • Direct Fusion Drive Could Take Us To Sedna During Its Closest Approach In 11,000 Years
  • Earth’s Energy Imbalance Is More Than Double What It Should Be – And We Don’t Know Why
  • We May Have Misjudged A Fundamental Fact About The Cambrian Explosion
  • The Shoebill Is A Bird So Bizarre That Some People Don’t Even Believe It’s Real
  • Colossal’s “Dire Wolves” Are Now 6 Months Old – And They’ve Doubled In Size
  • How To Fake A Fossil: Find Out More In Issue 36 Of CURIOUS – Out Now
  • Is It True Earth Used To Take 420 Days To Orbit The Sun?
  • One Of The Ocean’s “Most Valuable Habitats” Grows The Only Flowers Known To Bloom In Seawater
  • World’s Largest Digital Camera Snaps 2,104 New Asteroids In 10 Hours, Mice With 2 Dads Father Their Own Offspring, And Much More This Week
  • Simplest Explanation For “Anomalous” Signals Coming From Underneath Antarctica Ruled Out
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version