'Cannibal' sun flare may be warning before intense solar storm in 2025
dailystar.co.ukEarth was hit with a huge geomagnetic storm earlier this week after a series of outbursts from the Sun. These outbursts are tied to sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the Sun's surface. "The last several years really we've had very little activity, as is the case during solar minimum, but now we're ramping up and ramping up quite fast into the next solar cycle maximum, which we expect in 2025," Bill Murtagh, a program coordinator at the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), told Space.com."We're seeing the increase in activity that one would expect with this rise in the solar cycle," he said. "This is kind of our awakening phase."The past week's storms have shown that solar.
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