NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a powerful solar flare on video – the video was: published on the agency’s blog.
The researchers observed the peak of the star’s activity on the night of January 6. The flash is assigned class X1.2. Solar flares classes have letter designations, with class X being the strongest. Within each class, numbers from 1 to 10 indicate the relative strength of the epidemic.
The source of the glow was sunspot AR3182. The past epidemic did not affect the Earth. But due to the Sun’s rotation, the point will soon point towards our planet, causing new flares and coronal mass ejections.
Previously, experts from the American company Google control The effect of strong solar storms on the performance of internet cables laid underwater.
According to the researchers, solar flares can cause huge power surges across the entire infrastructure. As a result, experts learned that the fiber itself is not affected by voltage fluctuations, since the cable has conductive copper elements and optical signal amplifiers are located on different parts.