NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a powerful flare that occurred on the Sun on January 10.. Sunspot AR3186 was the source of the outbreak, according to space weather tracking website Spaceweather..

The flash was assigned to the highest class, X. Radiation ejected from the eruption ionized the Earth's upper atmosphere and led to a brief radio outage over the Pacific Ocean.

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As the portal notes, this is already the third powerful outbreak this week, and the sources of each of them were different sunspots.. "

According to the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Agency, another class X flare could occur on the Sun on January 11..

In addition, two more spots appeared on our star. So far they are on its reverse side, but they should appear in the field of view of observers from Earth within this week..

Recall that recently there were 16 flares on the Sun in two days.. The spot AR3165 became their source.