For the first time since November 16, M-type flares appeared on the Sun. speak experts of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Telegram channel.
Astronomers explain that the strongest was the first of three flares, which occurred at 01:24 Moscow time and was classified as M5.9. They specified that the event power was 59% of the threshold for the highest X score.
“Such flares are in fact not unexpected; One can only be surprised in this case that it took the star more than 12 hours to reach this level: it was predicted that this would happen yesterday,” scientists note.
According to them, the increased activity is now developing in a softer scenario than three weeks ago, the situation seems a little less tense.
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Experts have found that the “main star of the scene”, area 4274, remains behind the edge of the Sun. At the same time, they added, the peaks of the magnetic rings visible to the north above the left edge of the star with a high probability belong precisely to this region.
