The biggest Solar Flare of the year occurred at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT) this morning April 11 and registered as a M6.5-class sun storm, a relatively mid-level flare on the scale of solar tempests. It coincided with an eruption of super-hot solar plasma known as a coronal mass ejection.
This caused a brief radio blackout on our planet.
“This is the strongest flare seen so far in 2013,” NASA spokeswoman Karen Fox explained in a statement. “Increased numbers of flares are quite common at the moment, since the sun’s normal 11-year cycle is ramping up toward solar maximum, which is expected in late 2013.”
Things are definitely heating up on the Sun, tune into Slice of SciFi.tv on Tuesdays where you can find out more about solar activity and it’s effect of the Earth from Suspicious Observer.
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