Both solar flares were X-class events, the most intense and energetic storms the Sun can emit.
to as a high frequency radio event by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, hit Earth on Monday August 7 with peak activity occurring at 4:46 p.m. Eastern Time. According to the administration, the solar flare was dubbed an X1.5 flare, and EarthSky
that X-class solar flares are the most intense family of activity. Effects of the flare included degradation and loss of high frequency radio signals, specifically on the sunlit side of the planet.“Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground,” NASA
following Monday’s event. “However—when intense enough—they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS & communications signals travel.”preceded by another solar flare emitted just two days earlier, with activity peaking at 6:21 p.m. Eastern Time on August 5, to NASA. This solar flare was another X-class event, but was a tad stronger than Monday’s flare, clocking in at an intensity of X1.6.effect us here on Earth by impacting our radio signals, but these cosmic storms can also spell disaster for spaceflight. Last September, ESA and NASA’s
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