On the night of September 7, an M-class explosion occurred on the Sun.
Publika.az reports that this information was released by the Russian Institute of Applied Geophysics.
"At 01:15 Moscow time, in the sunspot group 4207 (N28W16), an M1.2 flare lasting 10 minutes in the X-ray range was recorded," it was stated.
It should be noted that solar flares are classified into five classes based on radiation power: A, B, C, M, and X, where A is the weakest and X is the strongest. Each subsequent letter signifies a 10-fold increase in power.
Scientists at St. Andrews University have newly determined that particles in solar flares heat up 6.5 times more than previously thought. During explosions, the plasma temperature in the star's outer atmosphere rises above 10 million °C. They increase the flow of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation that pose danger to satellites and astronauts, and also affect the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere.
