The sun produced a huge solar flare over the Easter holiday weekend, triggering radio blackouts over southeast Asia and Australia, experts said. The Easter solar eruption peaked at 11:34 p.m. EDT on Sunday (0334 GMT on April 17), according to the United States Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), and was followed shortly after by a coronal mass ejection (CME). A CME is a jet of plasma and highly magnetized particles that can contain up to a billion tons of matter. “An X1 flare was observed at 17/0334 UTC from newly numbered Region 2994 (N14E75),” the agency said in an update. “This R3 (Strong) event had an associated Type II radio sweep and 10 cm radio burst.” ...
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Sun Unleashes Major Solar Flare Over Easter, Triggering Radio Blackouts
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Sun Unleashes Major Solar Flare Over Easter, Triggering Radio Blackouts
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