The sun emitted an M-class solar flare on April 2, after an X-class solar flare was sent out on March 31, according to SpaceWeather.com. There was a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) associated with the solar flare that hit Earth, but it failed to cause a geomagnetic storm.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center released a video of the M-class solar flare over the weekend. The video of the M-class solar flare can be found below.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) witnessed the event live, which peaked at 10:05 a.m. EDT on April 2, according to SpaceWeather.com.
The flare originated from the sunspot AR2027, according to NASA.
X-class solar flares are the most powerful type of flares, as researchers have confirmed M-class flares are 10 times less intense than X-class flares.
An M6 solar flare is approximately six times more intense than an M1 flare, according to SpaceWeather.com.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center issued a "weak" geomagnetic storm watch for April 5, which was the expected time of arrival for the CME.
The CME did in fact hit Earth, but it not cause a geomagnetic storm.
The sun emitted an X-class solar flare on March 31, according to SpaceWeather.com.
The flare erupted from the sunspot AR2017, and two M-class solar flares erupted from the same location on both March 28 and March 30.
The Space Weather Prediction Center issues a geomagnetic storm watch, but the CME barely missed Earth.
"Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), it looks like the bulk of the plasma blob from the 29 March CME missed the Earth. Forecasters are not looking for much of a chance of elevated geomagnetic storms for the next couple of days," according to a post issued on the space agency's Facebook.
No new solar activity is expected since the sunspot regions are not active, according to Spaceweather.com.
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