Five flares of the penultimate power class (M) erupted on the Sun, according to a report from the Institute of Applied Geophysics (FGBU “IPG”) website.
They recorded five distinct events:
at 01:22, an M5.9 flare with a duration of 13 minutes occurred within sunspot group 4294 (S17E89);
at 03:02, an M1.6 flare lasting 15 minutes was detected in sunspot group 4294 (S14E89);
at 07:20, an M1.6 flare with an eight-minute duration was registered from sunspot group 4294 (S17E89);
an M1.1 flare took place at 16:16 in sunspot group 4294 (S12E89) and spanned 23 minutes;
and at 19:07, an M2.9 flare (N20E89) was recorded, persisting for 48 minutes.
A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that manifests when energy stored in twisted magnetic fields is suddenly released. This generates a burst of radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays and gamma rays. Based on the intensity of their X-ray output, solar flares are categorized into classes A, B, C, M, or X. The flares observed on November 29th were nearing the final (X) class. Such powerful explosions have the potential to cause radio blackouts globally and precipitate prolonged geomagnetic storms.
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