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[Regnum] A weak magnetic storm began on Earth on the morning of Monday, July 7. This was reported by the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"A new magnetic storm, the second this month, was registered this morning. Like yesterday's event, which was the first in July, the storm has the weakest possible geomagnetic rating, G1, and is generally observed again without any apparent reason. The forecast, like yesterday, did not include the event," the laboratory's website says.
According to scientists, a slight increase in the speed and temperature of the solar wind is observed in the Earth's magnetosphere, due to which the amplitude of changes in it is insignificant. The magnetic storm should end in the next two hours.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 6, the Sun ejected its sixth prominence of record-breaking size in a week — more than a million kilometers. The ejection occurred in the direction of the north pole of the Solar System.
Earlier, on June 18, a powerful X-class flare was recorded on the Sun. According to the Institute of Applied Geophysics, the strength of the flare was X1.2, and its duration reached 16 minutes.
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