THE STRONGEST #X-FLARE YET: Giant sunspot AR3664 unleashed another X-flare today (May 11th @ 0139 UT)--its strongest yet. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a bright #ultravolet #flash from the category #X5.8 #explosion:

#Radiation from the flare caused a deep shortwave radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean. Ham radio operators and mariners may have noticed loss of signal at frequencies below 30 MHz for as much as an hour after the flare's peak.

We don't yet know if this flare hurled a #CME into space. If it did, it could have a grazing Earth-directed component.

https://spaceweather.com/

#X-FLARE CHAMPION OF SOLAR CYCLE 25: Active sunspot AR3663 produced two more X-flares today, a pair of X1's on May 8th at 0145 UT and 0509 UT. This makes it the most active sunspot of #Solar #Cycle 25 so far.

Since May 3rd, AR3663 has tallied six X-flares, more than any other #sunspot in the past 7 years. It may continue to run up the score as it approaches the sun's western limb later this week.

EARTH-DIRECTED #CME: A CME is coming. It was hurled into space earlier today by a roiling series of explosions in the magnetic canopy of giant sunspot AR3664. This movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory shows the CME leaving the sun bracketed by Venus (right) and Jupiter (left):

A NOAA forecast model predicts the CME will reach Earth late on May 10th, sparking G1- to G2-class geomagnetic storms on May 11th.
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A second CME might be following close behind this one. You can see a hint of it emerging near the end of the movie,
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PARTIALLY ECLIPSED #X-FLARE: Yesterday, May 16th, Earth-orbiting satellites detected an M9.6-class solar flare from a sunspot hiding behind the sun's southeastern limb. It was only percentage points away from being an X-flare. In fact, it probably was an X-flare partially eclipsed by the edge of the sun.

Although the underlying sunspot was hidden from view, it nevertheless managed to touch Earth. Radiation ionized the top of our planet's atmosphere, causing a deep shortwave radio blackout over North America: map.

"I knew something significant was happening on the #sun today when all the normal radio stations I monitor suddenly faded," reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft of New Mexico

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#X-CLASS #SOLAR-FLARE: The sun produced another #X-flare on Jan. 10th, this time from new sunspot AR3186. This movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the X1-class explosion hurling a plume of debris into space:

Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, causing a shortwave radio blackout over the South Pacific: blackout map. Mariners and ham radio operators may have noticed fadeouts and other unusual propagation effects at frequencies below ~30 MHz.

This is the 3rd X-flare in a week, and each flare has come from a different #sun spot. It's not just a single active region; the whole sun is becoming more active. NOAA forecasters say there is a 30% chance of another X-flare on Jan. 11th.

19 November 2022 - #Extreme #Solar #Activity Due to a Special Planetary Alignment?
Hello Everybody

On 19 November 2022 - just a couple of weeks away - there is a very special #planetary #alignment set to occur. It is a variation of a pattern that has been shown previously to be associated with major earth/solar changes.

In the video below, I provide a number of past examples of variations of the core pattern in question, detailing how they have produced unusual solar activity (935 AD, 1921 AD, 1973 AD), as verified by historical records. In doing so, I thus propose that the conjunction pattern set to occur on 19 November 2022 may also produce notable disruptive effects. Quite possibly an #X-flare event even. The analysis is as follows:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mYvwXoTVjXE