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Blogs > loveisamyth > loveisamyth, stars are forever


loveisamyth 68M
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5/5/2015 5:08 pm

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5/6/2015 1:48 pm
X-FLARE!
The sun is no longer quiet. Emerging sunspot AR2339 unleashed an intense X2-class solar flare on May 5th at 22:15 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the extreme ultraviolet flash.



A pulse of X-rays from the flare caused a strong radio blackout over western parts of North America and the entirety of the Pacific Ocean. This map shows the extent of the blackout, which affected frequencies mainly below 10 MHz. This is the type of event that mariners, aviators, and ham radio operators might have noticed.



The explosion probably hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, but coronagraph data are not yet available to confirm.

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