The AR4478 sunspot group has become the largest recorded so far this yearwith an area of about 1,200 conventional units, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Russian Space Research Institute reported this Sunday.
According to NASA, it is not only a large region, but also especially active, with very tangled magnetic fields capable of ejecting huge clouds of plasma to the solar system. Some of those eruptions, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), They could reach the Earth, informa RT.
Russian scientists indicated that one of these solar flares could reach our planet next Tuesday and another on Wednesday. They also noted that on Tuesday the group will reach the most direct line of sight between the Sun and Earth, which increases interest in its evolution, he says. RT.
Until now, the largest sunspot group of the year had been AR4366, observed in February, with a maximum size of 1,100 units. That region generated a powerful X8.1-class flare and broke the 21st century record for the total number of intense eruptions.
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