One should not expect serious magnetic disturbances from the ejection associated with the flare that occurred on the Sun, Maria Abunina, head of the IZMIRAN Space Weather Forecast Center, explained in an interview with RT.
“Outbreaks are really classified into classes A, B, C, M and X. X is considered the largest outbreaks. But X3.3 is not the largest X-flare ever observed. There were X14, there were X20, there were X28. Therefore, X-3 is one of the “small” most powerful flares, so to speak. You shouldn’t expect any serious magnetic disturbances specifically from the emission associated with this particular flare,” explained RT’s interlocutor.
Because, according to her, it occurred on the eastern limb, that is, from the left edge of the visible solar disk.
“And, accordingly, the ejection, which has already flown into interplanetary space, is not directed towards Earth. It is directed, if we look at the Sun, to the left. Accordingly, this is what will fall in the path of this ejection on the left side of the Sun; if there were planets with magnetospheres, there would be magnetic storms there. This emission with all its beautiful power will definitely not reach the Earth,” Abunina explained.
The expert noted that emissions from the central zone of the visible solar disk are dangerous.
“But from this ejection there may well be a shock wave impact to the Earth’s orbit and to near-Earth space. It is much more widespread than a coronal mass ejection. And if this happens, then small disturbances are possible somewhere on the third or fourth day from today, and will definitely not lead to large disturbances in the geomagnetic field,” the specialist concluded.
Earlier it was reported that scientists for the first time since October 9 registered a new flare of the highest class on the Sun – X.
