Sun Ties 21st-Century Record With 29 Flares in One Day, Russian Media Report
According to Russian media, 29 solar flares were recorded on 7 November, tying the record for this century. The reports cite the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Vedomosti, quoting the laboratory, writes that the same count of 29 was recorded on 5 May 2022 and 10 December 2024. It adds that, uniquely, all of the flares came from a single sunspot group, numbered 4566, currently near the centre of the solar disc, whereas earlier records involved several active regions. Specialists noted that the Sun has not yet crossed the threshold of 30 flares per day, by Moscow time, in this century.
Interfax reports that the Fedorov Institute of Applied Geophysics recorded three strong M-class flares on 7 November (M1.2, M1.4 and M1.9) in group 4566, and that a magnetic storm was registered on Saturday. Lenta.ru, citing REN TV, says such activity does not threaten Earth because the Sun is spending its energy on many small flares rather than a few powerful blasts. Vedomosti notes that group 4566 has a small area but the highest complexity class, so scientists do not rule out further eruptions.
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