Solar Flare 2024 News Today. Two active filaments danced on the limb (edge), with one erupting. Nasa’s solar dynamics observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image.

The x3.98 flare this morning is not only ar3664’s largest solar flare to date, but also the 4th largest solar flare this solar cycle according to solar physicist keith strong’s post. Neither the may eruption nor this week’s is as severe as the carrington event, a solar storm that hit earth in 1859, disrupting telegraph stations, or another that in 1989 caused.