X-5 Class Solar Flare New Year’s Eve, and 1st Auroras of 2024
Our Brightest Star created a New Sound in the Universe by the power of an X-5 Class solar storm, the strongest projection of the Sun’s solar cycle 25 and the first aurora display of 2024.
SPACEWEATHER.COM News: Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024
BRACE FOR IMPACT: A CME is expected to graze Earth’s magnetic field today, Jan. 2nd. Normally, grazing impacts have little effect, but this one might be different. The CME was hurled into space by the strongest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25, an X5-class explosion on New Year’s Eve. G1-class geomagnetic storms are likely when the CME arrives.
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