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Bird Wing solar eruption

May 28 , 2025 2 days 136 0

A major solar eruption, also called the "bird-wing" event was detected recently.
This plasma element, measuring over a million kilometres in length, was more than twice the distance from Earth to the Moon.
Solar flares are sudden and intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation that are released from the Sun's surface due to intense magnetic activity.
The flares travel at the speed of light, and coronal mass ejection (CMEs) travel between 250 kilometres per second (km/s) and 3000 km/s.
The biggest flares are known as “X-class flares”.
The smallest ones are A-class (near background levels), followed by B, C, M, and X.