Elon musk's warning of this terrifying event now a reality in Africa and the Middle East a
shortwave radio blackout resulted from a solar flare that erupted from a departing Sunspot on
September 16th this foyer released a pulse of X-rays and extremely strong UV radiation up to
an hour following the flare frequencies below 25 megahertz were affected the Richter scale
used to measure earthquakes is analogous to how strong solar flares are assessed each succeeding
letter of the classification system for solar flares represents a 10-fold increase in energy
production these categories are a b c m or x a class solar flares are only slightly more powerful
than the sun's background radiation emission Elon Musk in a recent interview stated that humanity
is completely unprepared for a giant solar flare which is inevitable how dangerous are solar flares
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Musk the solar flare that erupted on September 16th from Sunspot AR 3098 was an M8 class which
means it was almost as powerful as an x-flayer the strongest sword the radio blackout was classified
as an intermediate category R2 occurrence by the UK Met Office Space weather section R1 is small
while R5 is Extreme a coronal mass ejection or CME from the sun's Corona sphere a shell
of million-degree plasma that extends millions of kilometers from the sun's surface is thought to
be possible in conjunction with the solar flare according to experts in space weather the Mets
and other space weather forecasters predict that the CME could lead a G1 level or small geomagnetic
instability during the next few days which would have a little influence on satellite operations
and weak power grid oscillations however if our Reliance on technology and satellites which
are less shielded from solar activity grows such occurrences could be dangerous this was made clear
on February 4th when 38 of spacex's starlink satellite started to fall out of the sky as
a result of a small G1 class geomagnetic storm after 2023 40 countries will be able to access
the internet using spacex's starlink constellation of satellites which will also offer International
mobile phone service musk stated a geomagnetic storm and CME were brought on by an M1 class
solar Outburst how a supposedly small storm may cause such substantial damage as described in
a report that was published in the space weather magazine Tong dang the primary author from China's
University of Science and Technology said that even though the storm was just small it still
injected over 1200 gigawatts of energy into the Earth's atmosphere the satellite's aerodynamic
drag was significantly increased as a result of the additional energy heating the upper atmosphere
of Earth just a fifth of the 49 starlink satellites that were crammed inside the Falcon
9 rocket and launched on February 3rd survived the undertaking received a boost last week when SpaceX
successfully launched a second Falcon 9 rocket carrying fresh starlink satellites musk explained
in an effort to lessen the atmospheric influences that contributed to the starlink snafu earlier
this year the satellites will be placed in a higher orbit scientists warned that severe flares
will become more frequent as the sun approaches solar cycle 25 with sunspot activity projected
to Peak in 2025 despite the fact that solar flares are notoriously difficult or impossible to predict
since the description of solar cycle 1 in 1755 solar Cycles have been observed and are typically
11 years long about 160 years ago the largest solar flare episode in the previous 500 years
took place Richard Carrington a renowned solar astronomer from England was monitoring sunspots
on September 1st 1859. Carrington noticed two beads of dazzling white light appear above the
sunspots while he was sketching what he had seen the following morning before Dawn auroras in the
colors of red green and purple lit up the skies all across the world including the Caribbean as
a result of telegraph systems being damaged and their operators being electrocuted Telegraph
papers were set on fire scientists estimate that the solar flare in question was about
an x-45 class flare making it the most powerful solar flare ever observed the episode is known
in history as the Carrington event x-glass solar flares have caused damage in other more
recent incidents proving their potential danger musk explained a solar flare in 1972 disrupted
long-distance phone service throughout the U.S six million Canadians were without a electricity for
nine hours due to a solar Outburst in 1989. additionally on Bastille Day in 2000 an X5
class solar flare caused some satellites to short circuit and resulted in radio blackouts scientists
studying space weather warned that things are starting to get fairly raucous as the solar
cycle approaches its peak in actuality the sun has already been more active than expected throughout
this cycle and this year's already seen the release of a number of x-class flares according
to experts as the cycle approaches its height we should anticipate more geomagnetic storms
including powerful and moderate storms satellites and navigational systems would be interfered
with during strong storms solar astronomy was a relatively basic subject between the 1600s and the
middle of the 1800s the light from the sun was all that was needed to investigate it you might split
that light up to its individual wavelengths by passing it through a prism which would separated
into wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to infrared and all the colors in between
the sun's disk can be seen up close by placing a solar filter over the telescope's eyepiece or
by creating a projected image of the sun both of which will show any sun spawns or you may watch a
total solar eclipse Nature's Most stunning display to see the sun's Corona and for more than 250
years that was it musk stated solar astronomer Richard Carrington tracked an unusually huge
irregular Sunspot in 1859 which had a profound impact on how that was perceived unprecedented
Brilliance and a five-minute duration of a white light flare were suddenly seen a little
more than 18 hours later Earth experienced the biggest geomagnetic storm in history globally
including at the equator aurorae were visible midnight Awakenings of miners who mistook the
time for daylight using the Aurora's light one could read newspapers furthermore alarmingly
Telegraph systems started to flare and start Flames while being completely disconnected it
turned out that this was the first ever detection of a solar flare a type of space weather that
we now under understand a multi-trillion dollar catastrophe would ensue of a similar occurrence to
the Carrington event of 1859 took place on Earth today what we all need to know about it is this
the two things that come to mind when we think of the sun are its internal source of energy nuclear
fusion in its core and the radiation it produces from its Photosphere which warms and Powers a wide
range of biological and chemical activities on Earth and across the solar system of course there
are more significant processes involving our sun besides these two close observation reveals Loops
tendrils and even streams of hot ionized plasma which is made up of atoms that are so hot that
their electrons have been Stripped Away leaving only bare Atomic nuclei this is especially true
of the sun's outermost layers according to mosque due to the hot charged particles following the
magnetic field lines between various areas of the sun these wispy shapes are a result of the
magnetic field of the sun compared to the magnetic field of Earth this is considerably different the
magnetic field of the sun is produced just below the surface but the magnetic field of our planet
is controlled by the metallic core because the sun's powerful magnetic fields which periodically
loop back split apart and reconnect lines enter and leave the sun in an erratic manner according
to musk if we really want to avoid the worst case scenario for such an incident we need to
start by investing in early detection while it is possible for humans to observe the Sun from
a distance and determine wind flares in coronal mass ejections May pose a threat to Earth we
have relied on insufficient information we can determine whether such An Occurrence
would potentially have a disastrous effect on our planet by monitoring the magnetic fields of the
charged particles moving from the Sun to Earth and comparing them with the direction of the magnetic
field on Earth at that specific instant and that's it for today guys we sincerely hope you enjoyed
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