Watch as the Sun blasts out FOUR solar flares in rare ‘super’ explosion that risks wreaking havoc on Earth
A RARE 'super' eruption was captured blasting out of the Sun, where four separate flares exploded almost simultaneously.
The quartet of explosions are actually a chain reaction, linked by nearly-invisible magnetic loops in the sun's corona - the outermost part of the sun's atmosphereSolar flares are explosions of electromagnetic radiation from the sun's chaotic surface.On April 23, Nasa caught four bursts all from separate regions, hundreds of thousands of miles apart, on the solar surface.
"Events like this are called "sympathetic solar flares" - pairs of explosions that occur almost simultaneously in widely-spaced active regions," according to Spaceweather.com."Today's sympathetic flare was not a simple pair but a complex quartet covering much of the sun's Earth-facing hemisphere," the site explained.
While we will have to wait and see if any of the ejected material from the super-sympathetic eruption will impact Earth, here's what might happened in the coming days:When impacts?Space.com points out that the quadruple blast could be a sign we are nearing the solar maximum.Want to know more about the weird and wonderful world of science? From the Moon to the human body, we have you covered...
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