A RARE ‘super’ eruption was captured blasting out of the Sun, where four separate flares exploded almost simultaneously.
The incredible quadruple eruption was captured by Nasa’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
Solar flares are explosions of electromagnetic radiation from the sun’s chaotic surface.
On April 23, Nasa caught four bursts all from separate regions, hundreds of thousands of miles apart, on the solar surface.
“Events like this are called “sympathetic solar flares” – pairs of explosions that occur almost simultaneously in widely-spaced active regions,” according to Spaceweather.com.
“Today’s sympathetic flare was not a simple pair but a complex quartet covering much of the sun’s Earth-facing hemisphere,” the site explained.
Space.com points out that the quadruple blast could be a sign we are nearing the solar maximum.
The solar maximum is the peak of solar activity, which occurs every 11 years or so.
Four different flares burst almost simultaneously during a RARE’super’ eruption, which was seen erupting from the Sun.
NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the amazing quadruple eruption.
Electromagnetic radiation bursts from the sun’s erratic surface are called solar flares.
They happen when the solar atmosphere’s magnetic energy accumulates.
Four bursts were detected by NASA on April 23. They came from different parts of the solar surface that were hundreds of thousands of miles apart.
Spaceweather.com states that “sympathetic solar flares” are what these kinds of events are known as; they are pairs of explosions that happen nearly simultaneously in widely different active regions.
The website stated, “Today’s sympathetic flare was not a simple pair but a complex quartet covering much of the sun’s Earth-facing hemisphere.”.
It is therefore “extremely sympathetic.”. “.”.
Not by accident, either.
The four explosions are really a series of interconnected ones connected by almost undetectable magnetic loops in the solar corona, which is the outermost region of the sun’s atmosphere.
When does it occur?
Whether this massive ejection will affect us here on Earth is unknown.
But if we do, they should show up by April 26 at the latest.
Space Dot Com notes that there’s a chance the quadruple blast indicates the solar maximum is approaching.
The solar maximum, which happens about every 11 years, is the pinnacle of solar activity.
