According to SpaceWeather.com, the sunspot AR2993 exploded twice in quick succession on April 25, resulting in M1-class solar flares. Solar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation. Class M explosions can disrupt radio frequencies and expose astronauts in space to higher levels of radiation.
According to experts at SpaceWeather.com, ‘the double explosion caused a small but prolonged radio blackout in southeast Asia and Australia.’
According to the Space Weather Prediction Center, ‘solar activity is expected to be active next week’. Next week the Sun enters a period that will last for the next few years and will peak in 2025. Sunspots and other activities will occur during this time.
Space weather watcher Mark Miesch told Space.com “[Bu güneş döngüsünün] “There are predictions that it will be strong, but we’ll wait and see,” he said.
Solar air can wreak havoc on power grids and disable satellites, radio and other infrastructures.
The increased amount of activity on the sun’s surface can greatly affect the number of commercial satellites orbiting the Earth that are most vulnerable to solar flares. Solar storms have the potential to cause significant effects on Earth’s electronic systems.
In 2012, such a storm missed Earth by just nine days, and scientists suggest a direct impact would likely damage Earth’s electronic systems on a scale that could take up to a decade to recover.