09-06-2017, 10:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-06-2017, 10:33 PM by Mystic Wanderer.)
Okay, we can stop stressing out now, I think.
I just read on another site that the flare had already hit. It knocked out radio communications for about an hour, but nothing major.
But, there still might be more to come.
Check this out
I just read on another site that the flare had already hit. It knocked out radio communications for about an hour, but nothing major.
But, there still might be more to come.
Quote:The orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, is currently out of contact with Earth because of its location, so observers will not be able to see any coronal mass ejections caused by this morning's flares until 10:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), Battams wrote on Twitter.
If aimed toward Earth, such an ejection could lead to even more spectacular auroras, but could also damage satellites, communications and power systems. That cloud of charged plasma would arrive within 1 to 3 or 4 days, Steenburgh said, although CMEs triggered by energetic flares generally come quickly.
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