Two and a half weeks ago we wrote ‘Sun spits out huge solar flare – and that’s just the beginning’. And yes, last weekend it happened again.

On Sunday morning, at 5.34 am our time, the sun produced another large solar flare. Like the specimen from the end of March, this flame falls into the heaviest class, X. However, it lagged slightly behind the flame of March 30. It belonged to subclass X1.3, the flame from last weekend to subclass X1.1.

X-rays from the solar flare did cause a blackout in the shortwave part of the radio spectrum in Southeast Asia and Australia (ticket here† “Navigators, pilots and radio amateurs may have seen unusual effects at frequencies below 30 megahertz,” the site reports. SpaceWeather.com†

Still an active area

The solar flare came from a group of sunspots that had already been flaming considerably, writes the American Space Weather Prediction Center in a statement. short update† Over the next week, these spots will move along the front of the sun, likely bringing even more solar activity.

And it doesn’t stop there either. NASA’s STEREO-A probe has spotted another active region on the solar surface, traveling behind the sunspots that produced last weekend’s flame.

Plasma Burst

In addition, fourteen minutes after the ‘Easter flame’ started, a coronal mass ejection (video here): an eruption that shoots a large amount of plasma into space. We are not going to suffer from that here on earth, it is now clear. The US meteorological and oceanographic agency NOAA has determined that this plasma will pass behind our planet.