The Sun has an X-class flare

The Sun has an X-class flare

Published 17.02.2024 | By Йосиф

The Sun has an X-class flare and Nibiru has four gamma-ray bursts

spaceweather.com: X-FLARE FROM THE “DANGER ZONE”: Sunspot AR3576 exploded today (06:53 UT), causing a brief but intense X2.5 class solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory saw huge plumes of plasma flying away from the explosion site:

As these images show, AR3576 is near the western edge of the Sun and is no longer facing Earth. You might think that this means our planet is safe outside the line of fire. But in fact the opposite is true. AR3576 enters the “danger zone” where the Sun and Earth are magnetically coupled.

Sunspots located near the western limb of the Sun are magnetically connected to the Earth. The Sun’s magnetic field spirals like a lawn sprinkler, a shape known as a “Parker spiral.” Look at this diagram. Magnetic force lines emanating from the western limb go around our planet and touch it.

The flare hit Earth with a pulse of energetic protons, shown here in a graphic from NOAA’s GOES-18 satellite:

The magnetic connection between Earth and AR3576 allowed this pulse to reach us, despite the sunspot not facing our planet. Notably, the pulse was relatively rich in “hard protons” with energies >50 MeV, which effectively disable satellite electronics.

The great sunspot AR3576 is about to disappear behind the Sun’s western limb, so for now, enjoy this parting shot from astronomer Philip Tosi:

Editor’s Commentary of The Big The One: As everyone predicted even when the spot appeared above the horizon, AR3576 presented its fellow earthlings with an X-class flare. Fortunately, at the moment of the explosion the spot was not directed at us; the Earth was caught only through the heliosphere current sheet . However, the main adventures continue:

As you can see, four more gamma-ray bursts from an unknown source came to Earth on February 16. This is not directly related to the AR3576 flare: it hit the Sun early in the morning, and the gamma-ray bursts went on far into the afternoon. It is possible that they represent some kind of aftereffect, or perhaps they are generated not by the Sun, but by some other object, which is most likely. Everything is leading to the fact that we will soon learn quite a lot about this object, so we continue to monitor developments.

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