NASA SDO - X2-class Solar Flare, January 27, 2012

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Our "bad boy" sunspot 1402 continues to unleash flares. At 18:37 UT this active region produced the largest category of flares; an X-class flare. It measured X2 to be exact.

Since this active region is rotating over the limb of the Sun the eruption was not Earth directed. But energetic protons accelerated by the blast are now surrounding our planet and a S1-class radiation storm is in progress.

S1-class is the lowest of 5 (S1 to S5) and has no biological impact, no satellite operations are impacted but some minor impact on HF radio is experienced.

Credit: NASA SDO

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  • @Gman2A2, because the dumb ones think it's the same thing.

  • Sun fart.

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  • I hope the sun explodes and tear us up into pieces and scatter us all over the Milky Way down to the black hole with the rest of the stars and alien planet.

  • Thanks to Sun's powerful energy production, the Earth will remain habitable for us.

  • @V1RUL Well there's no such thing as hell, so your're not going to hell :D

  • @XxPimpStarzXx oh.... guess im going to hell then.. :(

  • @V1RUL Have you read the old testament of the Bible O_O, guess your're ignoring the most sacred book in the world xD

  • @XxPimpStarzXx no stupid im saying christians can you stupid orphan fuck

  • @V1RUL Muslim's can't eat pork either xD

  • When we get into Heaven, God has the names for them :D I hope he named one especially for me! lol

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