Deputy Head of IKI RAS Department, solar wind expert Andrei Sadovsky in an interview with the Public News Service commented He reports that the Sun experienced the most powerful explosion in the last six years. According to him, solar activity is currently increasing, so this phenomenon is not surprising.
“The peak of activity has not yet passed: everything will increase or remain at the same level, so there is no escape from new solar flares,” Sadovsky said.
He explained that the Sun is currently going through its 11-year cycle in which the poles shift, so the activity of the star closest to us has increased. According to him, the only thing that can threaten humans is magnetic storms.
On the evening of December 14, forecasters from the Phobos meteorological center was recorded A super powerful flare on the Sun with magnitude X2.8. Experts noted that such an epidemic was last recorded in 2017.
Solar flares may be accompanied by geomagnetic storms on Earth – meteorologists believe that symptoms of this phenomenon will be noticeable on Saturday, December 16.
Earlier astronomers EstablishedThe peak of solar activity is predicted to occur in early 2024.