X2.0 solar flare
Friday, 1 November 2024 17:13 UTC
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X2.0 solar flare
But back to reality... we have a nice sunspot region facing our planet today. Region 3878 is the one we are talking about and it produced an X2.0 solar flare (R3-strong) at 21:20 UTC yesterday. Despite it being a strong solar flare, it did not look eruptive and with the help of SOHO/LASCO coronagraph imagery we can confirm this is not the case. No earth-directed coronal mass ejection from this event! But it remains a candidate to produce an M or X-class event in the coming days.
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