[Regnum] On the night of December 8, a "black" solar flare occurred on the Sun, a beautiful and rare phenomenon. This was reported by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to scientists, after the flare, a cloud of dense, cold hydrogen was torn apart and scattered across the solar disk for approximately 1 million kilometers. This dark, faintly glowing, cold substance, against the bright background of the Sun, created the appearance of either a ghostly black flame dancing in Solonets's atmosphere or a mysterious dark fog that enveloped a third of the Sun's disk for several hours.
The laboratory added that by the morning of December 8, this cloud had completely disappeared, as most of it “evaporated” in the heat of the Sun, and the rest dissipated.
On the morning of December 8, scientists recorded a solar flare of the highest class X. It lasted for 15 minutes and was accompanied by a disruption of short-wave radio communications.
The day before, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported strong magnetic storms on Earth on December 9–10. Scientists attributed these storms to a plasma ejection following a late-night M8.1-class solar flare.
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A solar flare of the highest class X was recorded.
On the morning of Monday, December 8, a high-level X-class solar flare was detected. This was reported by the press service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics (IFG).
“On December 8 at 08:01 Moscow time, an X2.1 flare was registered in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 4298 (S14W51),” the website of the Institute of Geophysical Problems (IPG) states.
The solar flare lasted 15 minutes and disrupted short-wave radio communications. Additionally, on the night of December 8, two solar flares of the penultimate M-class occurred—M2.5 and M2.1.
Yesterday, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences warned of strong magnetic storms on Earth on December 9–10. According to scientists, these geomagnetic disturbances were caused by a plasma ejection following an M8.1-class solar flare last night.
Before this, scientists warned that the largest sunspot complex would form on the Sun in 2025. They believe it could be the source of enormous energy for a superexplosion.