<div dir="ltr">Global eruption on the sun<p><em> Space Weather</em> reports on what may be an interconnected global eruption on the Sun<br><br> Solar activity is high and intensifying. New sunspot AR1882, which rotated over the sun's eastern limb earlier October 25, promptly unleashed an X1-class solar flare, adding to a series of lesser flares already underway from sunspots AR1875 and AR1877. <br>
<br> NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a bright flash of extreme UV radiation from the X1 flare, which peaked at 08:01 UT on Oct. 25th:<br><br> There may be more to this flare than meets the eye. The X1-flare was bracketed by two erupting magnetic filaments, each located hundreds of thousands of kilometers from AR1882. In other words, the X1 flare might have been just one piece of an interconnected global eruption.<br>
<br> More flares are in the offing. There are now three sunspot groups on the Earthside of the sun capable of strong eruptions: AR1875, AR1877 and AR1882.<br><br> Read Space Weather at <br><a href="http://spaceweather.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://spaceweather.com/</font></a> </p>
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