A powerful solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth
Earth was hit by a massive X-class solar flare, creating an hour-long radio blackout in parts of southeast Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. The flare left the Sun at roughly 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening before traveling towards our planet and colliding with Earth’s upper atmosphere.
According to a tweet from the European Space Agency (ESA), the powerful X-class flare exploded from a sunspot called AR3256. Footage of the flare was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the video can be seen in…