It is characterized as the highest activity class. As reported by the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, the new outbreak belongs to class X, it was awarded a score of X8.
The index of flare activity reaches 9.8 points out of ten possible. At the same time, the department was reminded that this is the fourth powerful explosion on the Sun in recent times.
Recall, a series of outbreaks on the sun began on September 4 and continues to this day. One of them, which occurred on September 6, was the largest flash in the last 12 years.
As reported URA-Inform, September 7, on the Sun there was a third powerful flash. After that, the Earth was struck by the strongest geomagnetic storm, which caused the failure of satellite communication systems and affected the work of a computer network around the world.