6 images of the Sun's surface over 3 days taken by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO. The new flares are not directed at earth.

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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 09:04:18 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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   Sunspot region 3664 goes away with a bang!

   As the super-active sunspot region 3664 rotated away to the backside of the Sun, it lobbed 3 more X-Class flares today.

   X1.7 - 02:09 UTC
   X1.2 - 12:55 UTC
   X8.7 - 16:51 UTC, the strongest one of this cycle.

   An X8 flare is 8 times more powerful than an X1 and so on.

   In modern times, the largest solar flare occurred on 4 Nov 2003 at X45.

   The 1859 Carrington Event was estimated at X50.

   https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
   https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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