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Daisy Dobrijevic

INSANE: Strongest solar storm since 2017 hits earth but leaves aurora chasers in the dark | Vintage Vibes

Earth Tamitha Skov International Monetary Fund NOAA Sun
When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known ast "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption from sunpots AR3616 and AR23614 on March 23, 2024 may be an example of it. One of the flares was an X1-class flare and was captured in multiple wavelengths by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. .

The sun erupted on March 22 at 9:45 p.m. EDT (0145 GMT on March 23) with a powerful X-class solar flare and unleashed a barrage of super-hot plasma towards Earth in what is known as a coronal mass ejection (CME). 

The energetic onslaught hit our planet at 10:37 a.m. EDT (1437 GMT) on Sunday, March 24, sparking a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm, the strongest solar storm since 2017.

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