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Sunspot 1263 produceda X-Class flare

An X-class (X7 according to Spaceweather.com) solar flare just occured from sunspot 1263, apparantly around 8:35 UTC.

 

X-class flares are the most powerful category of solar flares, which can cause all sorts of problems when earth-directed. It is currently unkown whether this is the case.

Last week has been an extremely active period, with 3 M-class CME’s (originating from sunspot 1261) merging into one large CME.

Conspirates.com thinks it’s strange that websites like spaceweather.com or NOAA.gov (so far) have not been writing about this X-class flare, although they did so almost immediately after the M-class flares from sunspot 1261 last week. Nevertheless, the automated graphs on their websites almost went off-scale for the current X-class flare.

UPDATE: according to Solarham.com the flare is not fully earth-directed.

X-ray data for X6-class solar flare (sunspot 1263)

update: NASA Stereo Beacon data of this event

Stereo Beacon data on sunspot 1263 flare

Stereo Beacon data on sunspot 1263 flare

update: NASA Stereo Beacon data of this event

Stereo Beacon data on sunspot 1263 flare

Stereo Beacon data on sunspot 1263 flare

update: NASA Stereo Beacon data of this event

Stereo Beacon data on sunspot 1263 flare

Stereo Beacon data on sunspot 1263 flare

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