{"id":251440,"date":"2023-07-10T19:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=251440"},"modified":"2023-07-10T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:32:05","slug":"understanding-solar-flares-how-explosions-on-suns-surface-can-lead-to-radio-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/understanding-solar-flares-how-explosions-on-suns-surface-can-lead-to-radio-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding solar flares: How explosions on Sun\u2019s surface can lead to radio blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the articl<\/span>e \u201cUnderstanding solar flares: How explosions on Sun\u2019s surface can lead to radio blackouts\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Down To Earth <\/b>on 6<\/strong>th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Sun emitted an X-class solar flare disrupting radio communications over parts of the United States and the Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are Solar Flares?<\/b><\/h2>\n

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Source: Reuters<\/p>\n

A solar flare is a tremendous explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in \u2018twisted\u2019 magnetic fields (usually above sunspots) is suddenly released.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bThey can heat a substance to several millions of degrees in a matter of minutes, producing a burst of radiation that spans the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to x-rays and gamma rays.<\/span><\/p>\n

Impact of Solar Flares:<\/b> Solar Flares can affect radio communications, power grids and navigation signals and endanger astronauts and spacecraft.<\/span><\/p>\n

Categories: <\/b>Solar flares can be divided into various categories based on their brightness in X-ray wavelengths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/span>X-class flares<\/b> are large, significant events that have the power to cause global radio blackouts and persistent radiation storms in the upper atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/span>Medium-sized M-class flares<\/b> typically result in brief radio blackouts that affect the Earth\u2019s polar regions. Sometimes an M-class flare is followed by small radiation storms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/span>C-class flares<\/b> are slight and have little effect on the Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cUnderstanding solar flares: How explosions on Sun\u2019s surface can lead to radio blackouts\u201d published in Down To Earth on 6th July 2023 What is the News? The Sun emitted an X-class solar flare disrupting radio communications over parts of the United States and the Pacific Ocean. What… Continue reading Understanding solar flares: How explosions on Sun\u2019s surface can lead to radio blackouts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-251440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699898777},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}