Radio blackouts could cripple global systems AGAIN this week as NASA captures plasma eruption from sun

Radio blackouts could cripple global systems again this week as NASA predicts a dark plasma eruption from the sun.

The solar flare is approximately is estimated to be 36,000 degrees-Fahrenheit and prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue an alert on Monday warning about possible disruption caused to Earth's radio systems including aviation communication and satellite operations.

It's expected to cause most disruption on Friday, just days after a global IT outage caused by a Crowdstrike outage caused chaos at airports across the world. The NOAA said weak power grid fluctuations can occur and added as Aurora may be visible at high latitudes such as Canada and Alaska.

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In December, a NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth.

The sun spit out the huge flare along with a massive radio burst, causing two hours of radio interference in parts of the U.S. and other sunlit parts of the world. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it was the biggest flare since 2017, and the radio burst was extensive, affecting even the higher frequencies.

The combination resulted in one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded, Shawn Dahl of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center said Friday.

Multiple pilots reported communication disruptions, with the impact felt across the country, according to the space weather forecasting center. Scientists are now monitoring this sunspot region and analyzing for a possible outburst of plasma from the sun, also known as a coronal mass ejection, that might be directed at Earth. This could result in a geomagnetic storm, Dahl said, which in turn could disrupt high-frequency radio signals at the higher latitudes and trigger northern lights, or auroras, in the coming days.

Solar flares are large eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun lasting from minutes to hours. The sudden outburst of electromagnetic energy travels at the speed of light, therefore any effect upon the sunlit side of Earth’s exposed outer atmosphere occurs at the same time the event is observed. The increased level of X-ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation results in ionization in the lower layers of the ionosphere on the sunlit side of Earth.

Solar flares usually take place in active regions, which are areas on the Sun marked by the presence of strong magnetic fields; typically associated with sunspot groups. As these magnetic fields evolve, they can reach a point of instability and release energy in a variety of forms. These include electromagnetic radiation, which are observed as solar flares.