On the Sun occurred powerful explosion

The Sun recorded the most powerful flare in 12 years.

Sun 6 Sep, was the most powerful for the last 12 years of flash, resulting from the merger of the two largest groups of sunspots. She entered the top five most powerful in the entire history of observations.

“Events of such power are the most major that are only able to produce our star, which are formed only under very rare conditions, usually at the stage of peak solar activity. As it so happened that the outbreak of such level was held today, in the midst of a solar minimum, yet to understand scientists,” – said in the message of Laboratory of x-ray astronomy of the Sun Physical Institute named Lebedev.

It is noted that the flash has a score of X9.3, which makes it one of the five most powerful that has occurred during the observation of similar events.

In addition, it is reported, the impact of the outbreak on the Ground will be the maximum, as it happened on the far side of the Sun, aimed at the planet.

The exact effects of the flash to life on Earth, astronauts and satellites in orbit to predict while it is impossible, however, astronomers had predicted the possibility of occurrence of the Northern lights at the latitude of London and Moscow.

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