“Indeed, we recorded two X-class outbreaks at night and in the morning.
They were accompanied by small volume and energy ejections, coronal plasma ejections, which did not spread to the Earth, but tangentially.
That is, it is possible that after 2-3 days there will be a slight impact.
But I’ll emphasize that it’s small, because it’s not flying directly at us, but sideways,” Abunin said.
The cause of the flares that occurred close to each other, according to the expert, is solar activity.
“The fact is that we are still at the maximum of solar activity, even according to various estimates we have passed this maximum.
But just in the phase after the maximum and near the maximum, most often, such events were statistically observed in large classes.
That is, this is normal for the current moment in time and for the current position in the solar activity cycle,” added the RT interlocutor.
According to him, at this point in time since the beginning of the year, 4-5 outbreaks of this class have been recorded.
Earlier it became known that on February 22, two flares of the highest class X were recorded on the Sun.