Last weekend the sun sent out a strong solar flare, announced NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, who constantly observes the sun, after capturing an image of the event. That eruption was expected to trigger a moderate geomagnetic storm to be felt on Earth on Tuesday.

Solar flares and solar flares are powerful bursts of energy that can affect radio communications, power grids, navigation signals, and pose hazards to spacecraft and astronauts.

According to the NASA blog, this flare is classified as a torch X1.6. The X class indicates the most intense flashes, while the number gives more information about their strength.

A new model from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center shows that the second, faster ejection outpaced and cannibalized the first, which could turn the sum of the two into a geomagnetic storm predicted to reach Earth on Tuesday, August 8.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center https://spaceweather.gov/ is the official U.S. government source for space weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and advisories. NASA is constantly observing the sun and our space environment with a fleet of spacecraft studying everything from the sun’s activity to the solar atmosphere and the particles and magnetic fields in space around Earth, the agency reported on its blog.