According to a Spaceweather report on NASA’s website.. “On April 21, a magnetic filament erupted in the Sun’s southern hemisphere launched a coronal mass ejection toward Earth. This explosion definitely sent the CME toward Earth. SOHO photos confirm that it is heading directly toward our planet. The CME probably hit Earth on April 24.” reaches This will cause G1 to G2 class geomagnetic storms,” it said.
Solar activity is currently at its highest. As the Sun reaches the peak of its 11-year solar cycle, it falls somewhere in the middle before returning to normal. This is the main reason for the abundance of sunspots and magnetic filaments on the Sun’s surface, which indicate unstable magnetic fields. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continues to model solar storm intensity with input from NASA.
According to NASA, a solar storm that occurs as a result of an explosion in the Sun’s magnetic fields is more intense than the G2 class. Such powerful solar storms usually exhibit an intense aurora display. But, these lights can cause massive damage to our infrastructure. These solar storms can damage satellites and disrupt mobile networks and internet services. causing power grid failures. What’s more, they can destroy sensitive ground-based electronics.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has fully equipped facilities for studying the Sun. It uses three very important instruments for data collection of various solar activities. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) that takes high-resolution longitudinal, vector magnetic field over the entire visible solar disk, the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) that measures the Sun’s extreme ultraviolet irradiance, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly that provides continuous full disk observations of the solar chromosphere, corona in seven extreme ultraviolet channels ( imaging) are included.
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