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The event occurred in 2012, near the local maximum of sunspots that can be seen in this graph.. At 02:08 UT on 23 July 2012, a large coronal mass ejection (CME) was launched from the Sun. [3] The eruption emanated from solar active region 11520 and coincided with what was at most an X2.5-class solar flare. [4]
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A solar flare is a sudden flash of brightness observed over the Sun's surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as an energy release of up to 6 × 10 25 joules (about a sixth of the total Sun's energy output each second or 160 billion megatons of TNT equivalent, over 25,000 times more energy than released from the impact of Comet ...
A solar flare is a relatively intense, localized emission of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere.Flares occur in active regions and are often, but not always, accompanied by coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, and other eruptive solar phenomena.
The moon will pass completely away from the view of the sun by 4:33 p.m. The next total solar eclipse to pass over any part of the contiguous United States will be in 2044.
Okobie road tanker explosion: 12 July 2012 China: Yan'an: 36 3 Shaanxi bus–tanker crash: 27 August 2012 India: Chala: 20 21 Chala LPG tanker disaster: 5 September 2012 Turkey: Afyonkarahisar: 25 7 2012 Afyonkarahisar arsenal explosion: 5 September 2012 India: Sivakasi: 40 70 Sivakasi factory explosion: 18 September 2012 Mexico: Reynosa: 30 46 ...
Officials said the explosion happened around 8:45 p.m. ET. Witnesses at the scene said that a heat lamp outside of a restaurant had tipped over and caught fire before the explosion happened.
The Dow Jones (INDEX: ^DJI) is sitting up 0.4% mid-day. That's a decent-sized gain, but it pales in comparison to the huge 1.86% jump in the Nasdaq (INDEX: ^IXIC) . There's no subtlety to what's ...