Turbulent space weather ahead.
, the solar surface is now showing large filaments of magnetism. Each of these filaments is approximately the distance between the Earth and the Moon, i.e., 238,880 miles . Like sunspots, these regions are also relatively cooler than the solar surface and hence appear darker. However, each filament, if held up in the night sky, would glow brighter than the full Moon, the website said. Solar filaments are also known to be highly unstable.
Spaceweather.com predicts a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm to head towards Earth on the morning of July 13th. However, this storm is likely to be the result of two smaller sunspots and not the filaments. While sunspot AR3038 gave off a C-class solar flare, AR3055 is expected to produce a relatively powerful M-class flare that could result in radio blackouts for a few minutes. We do not know yet what the filaments are capable of.
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