Hello this is Deborah. The sun's rotation has now carried mega-sunspot region AR3590 into a prime position for affecting Earth. This region released 3 X flares - including the biggest flare yet in Solar Cycle 25 - late last week. But it has yet to throw out a big coronal mass ejection or CME - a chunk of solar material and magnetic fields - that could then travel across space to create auroras in Earth's sky. Still, if it's going to do it, now's the time! AR3590 is now in the perfect location on the sun's visible disk to be geoeffective, or it's capable of causing a magnetic disturbance on Earth. And there's a 30% chance of X flares today!
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