Sunspot AR1471 erupted on Monday, May 7, producing an M1-class solar flare and an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), spaceweather.com reported. The cloud is expected to reach Earth on May 9th at 13:40 UT (+/- 7 hours), Goddard Space Weather lab forecast.
A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun’s surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release of up to 6 × 10 25 joules of energy. They are mainly followed by a CME.
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