The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a X2.0 solar ...

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The strong “X2.0-class” flare erupted from the Sun at about 7.30 pm GMT from a sunspot rotating out of view from the Earth, the agency said. Solar flares are ranked on a four-class scale ...

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Following a solar flare, electromagnetic waves reach the Earth as x-rays in approximately 8 minutes, 04:53 while the fastest high-energy particles arrive in 30 minutes.

That's called a sun pillar. According to the National Weather Service, the optical phenomenon appears as a vertical shaft of light, visible most often at sunrise or sundown. SEE ALSO: Sunshine and ...

They also showcase a blue optical spectrum with broad hydrogen, helium, and nitrogen lines. The second flare occurred some 720 days after the first one. The astronomers noted that pre-discovery ...