{"id":26215,"date":"2023-12-15T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=26215"},"modified":"2023-12-17T19:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T03:11:17","slug":"sun-spits-out-largest-solar-flare-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2023\/12\/15\/sun-spits-out-largest-solar-flare-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun spits out largest solar flare in years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212; A monster solar flare that erupted from the Sun on Thursday is one of the largest ever recorded according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceweather.gov\/news\/strongest-solar-flare-solar-cycle-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space Weather Prediction Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The X2.8 flare may have also been accompanied by a plasma eruption known as a Coronal Mass Ejection that was directed at Earth, knocking out radio frequencies across the country and interfering with flight communications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is likely one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded. Radio communication interference with aircraft were reported by multiple NWS Center Weather Service Units (CWSU) co-located at FAA facilities. See <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U2jmmJNjJV\">https:\/\/t.co\/U2jmmJNjJV<\/a> for full story. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tAiLovhCUw\">pic.twitter.com\/tAiLovhCUw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (@NWSSWPC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSSWPC\/status\/1735458356284780970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>X-class flares are the strongest of classifications. This is the biggest flare since 2017 and the most intense of the current Solar Cycle 25.\u00a0It was <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/solarcycle25\/2023\/12\/14\/sun-releases-strong-solar-flare-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captured on video<\/a> by NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts&#8221;, NASA stated.<\/p>\n<p>Just days earlier, the results of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1010263?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study by Lancaster University<\/a> were released that warns flares can cause glitches on railways by fouling up electrical circuits that control the signals which could result in a malfunction and potentially a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnrasl\/article\/528\/1\/L27\/7441123?login=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> at the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India found that solar maximum could occur as soon as next month, much earlier than predicted.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2022\/04\/20\/sun-more-active-during-solar-cycle-than-expected\/\">Sun More Active During Solar Cycle Than Expected<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A monster solar flare that erupted from the Sun on Thursday is one of the largest ever recorded according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1250,210],"class_list":["post-26215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-solar-flare","tag-sun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/news-solar-flare-121523-4.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26215"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26248,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions\/26248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}