On Tuesday, May 13, in the sun after a break lasting a month and a half, an outbreak of the highest category occurred again. A group of spots AR4086 became its source.

This is reported by SpaceWeatherlive. The flash occurred on the western limb (the visible edge of the sun disk in a projection to the heavenly sphere).

It is noted that this is the first X-class event since March of this year, and it became very unexpected, since the probability of X-class activity on this day was only 1%.

The power of the flash reached the mark X1. 21 at 18:38 in Kyiv, reported in the channel " They put a video from the pictures of the observatory of solar dynamics (SDO) to show how it looked in different ranges.

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" Any emission of the coronal mass as a result of this outbreak, most likely, will not be directed to Earth, ”said SpaceWeatherlive.