Earth's sky flared up everywhere because of the record-breaking 'double explosion'

The Sun's latest blow to Earth suggests it has reached the "fiery point" in the cycle.

The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years, which occurred after an eruption from an extremely rare double X-class flare disturbed Earth's magnetic field is the explanation for a series of " strange phenomena" reported from Australia, New Zealand, and the US over the weekend.

The event illuminated the sky in many places with brilliant auroras and other luminous phenomena.

The Sun may be about to reach its "fiery point" in an 11-year cycle - (Graphic image).

According to Live Science , this explosive event is another clear sign that the Sun may have reached its fiery point in the 11-year cycle, known as "solar maximum."

In the next few months, Earth may be within range of more flares and fireballs from the Sun.

According to Spaceweather.com , the X-class solar flare with an intensity of up to 1.1 is the largest flare that our parent star can create, starting to flare up in the Sun from March 23.

The event was even more unusual because this flare created two explosions that simultaneously hit the Earth's magnetosphere, a rare phenomenon called a "sympathetic solar flare" , ejected by the pair of sunspots AR3614 and AR3615. located thousands of miles apart.

The double explosion accompanied by a fireball (ie "coronation object ejection - CME) allowed solar radiation to penetrate deeper into the atmosphere than normal. That is the cause of the unusual aurora phenomenon." in many regions of Australia and New Zealand, as well as the almost aurora-like STEVE purple light band (also known as strong thermal emission rate enhancement) in Alaska - USA.

According to the Space Weather Forecast Center of the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the geomagnetic storm created by this X-level fire has reached G4 level, an extremely powerful geomagnetic storm ranked only after type G5.

NOAA also believes that the unusual nature of this double explosion and powerful flare is a sign that the Sun is about to reach its maximum point.

Geomagnetic storms are often difficult to sense directly, however human radio systems, navigation, communications, satellite launch activities. can be disrupted by strong geomagnetic storms. . Therefore, space weather monitoring is always a focus.