A medium-strength solar flare occurred on the Sun in the early hours of Tuesday, the solar X-ray lab of the Russian Academy of Sciences Physics Institute said
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th April, 2021) A medium-strength solar flare occurred on the Sun in the early hours of Tuesday, the solar X-ray lab of the Russian academy of Sciences Physics Institute said.
According to data received from US satellite GOES-16, the laboratory has registered a Class M solar flare from 2:19 am - 2:59 am. The X-ray index rose from green to yellow level.
The solar flare is not a threat, but can provoke a geomagnetic storm in several days, Sergey Kuzin, the laboratory's chief, told Sputnik.
"This flare is unique for us, because we are observing a period of quite low solar activity, only from four to five such flares occurred lately. From the perspective of impact on the Earth, there will be nothing extraordinary, a small geomagnetic storm at most," Kuzin said.
He added that during high solar activity such flares occur every other day.
