#om namah shivaya
ANOTHER #X-FLARE: Old sunspot AR3664 (now AR3697) isn't as big as it used to be, but it is still very active. Today at 1437 UT, it produced an #X1.4-class #solarflare:
Note: The jiggling of the #sun in this movie is not caused by the X-flare. Calibration offsets were underway during the flare.
Extreme ultraviolet radiation produced a deep shortwave radio blackout over the Americas. Ham radio operators may have noticed loss of signal at all frequencies below 30 MHz.
This long-duration flare almost certainly hurled a CME into space. The US Air Force is reporting a Type II solar radio burst most likely produced by shock waves in the leading edge of a CME. Within the radio burst, frequency drift rates suggest an expansion velocity near 900 km/s (2 million mph). Confirmation awaits fresh data from SOHO coronagraphs.