Tag: X-Class Solar Flare

Record-Breaking X-Class Solar Flare Erupts, Signaling Potential Earth Impact and Increased Solar Activity Ahead

Dec 15, 2023

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Reia Leen Delantar

in Space News, US News

Solar physicists categorize X-class solar flares into three groups: C, M, and X, with X being the most powerful. An X-class solar flare was observed today, December 14, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft This particular outburst at 12:02 p.m. EST (1702 GMT) registered as an X2.8, marking it as the most potent X-class solar flare…