The sun emitted a strong solar flare last October 2, reaching its peak at 20:25 UTC.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured an image of the event. The solar flare can be seen in the bright flash at the top right of the snapshot, showing a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in the flares and is colored orange, NASA reports.
Solar flares are powerfuls energy blasts and both these and the eruptions can affect radio communications, electrical power networks, navigation signals and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.
From the SDO they explain that the harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through the Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground. However, when it is intense enough, can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel
This flare has been classified as an X1 flare. The X class denotes the most intense flashes, while the number provides more information about their strength.
Source: Lasexta
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