01.06.2020
The first major spike of activity in the new 25th cycle on the Sun has ended. The peak of solar flares came on the 29th of May. The total flare activity index reached a maximum of 4.4 on 10-point scale, which corresponds to the top of the yellow level on the scale of the solar flares activity. Until the next, orange level, starting with a score of 5, the event lacked only 0.6 points.
29.05.2020
The second, almost equal in strength to the previous one, large flare, was recorded on the Sun quite recently, less than 4 hours after the explosion of the last flare. Two large flares in a row is an extremely unusual situation for such an early phase of the solar cycle when magnetic fields are just beginning to form, and their energy is too small even for a single event.
29.05.2020
The first major solar flare on the Sun, which belongs to the class M (one located before the last highest mark of class X), has occurred several hours ago, at about 11 a.m. Moscow time, on 29 May 2020. Last time, a flare of a similar level was observed in September 2017 just before our star fell into a long almost three-years hibernation period. Since the source of energy for solar flares is the magnetic field, events of such power tell us more than any theories about the beginning of a new solar cycle which is based on the periodic cycles of destruction and formation of strong magnetic fields on the Sun, occurring in a period of 11 years.
