Wow. We are writing this news article with a heart filled with excitement. This night at 01:56 UTC we had a major solar flare which launched an equally as impressive coronal mass ejection into space. Earth-facing sunspot region 3848 produced a long duration X1.8 solar flare (R3-strong) which peaked at 01:56 UTC. This region is in a perfect earth-facing position and it became quickly clear that it was an eruptive solar flare.
Current data suggests there is a slight possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future
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Last X-flare | 2025/02/23 | X2.0 |
Last M-flare | 2025/02/25 | M3.6 |
Last geomagnetic storm | 2025/02/28 | Kp5 (G1) |
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January 2025 | 137 -17.5 |
Last 30 days | 152.9 +8.4 |