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Solar flare today! Sun spews out terrifying C-class solar flare; Planet in peril?

Earth is in the firing line as the Sun has spewed out a dangerous C-class solar flare from solar region AR3272.

Updated on: Apr 10 2023, 09:33 IST
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Best NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Week: Volcano on Mars, first 3D-printed rocket, more
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1/5 Olympus Mons on Mars (April 3) – NASA shared Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system which is located on Mars. How tall is it? NASA says that it has an elevation of about 25kms above the surrounding plains, stretching almost 600kms across. This image was captured by the Mars Express mission.  ( ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin/Mars Express/Andrea Luck)
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2/5 Rubin's Galaxy (April 5) – Captured by the Hubble Telescope, NASA featured Rubin's Galaxy (UGC 2885), which is located around 232 million light-years away in the northern constellation Perseus. Also, it spans around 800000 light-years across. (NASA/ESA/Hubble Telescope/B. Holwerda)
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3/5 World's first 3D-printed rocket (April 6) – It is Terran 1. Built by Relativity Space, Terran 1 can carry payloads up to 1250kg to about 185kms of Low-Earth orbit. (NASA/John Kraus/Relativity Space)
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4/5 Rigel - the brightest star of Constellation Orion (April 7) – Rigel is a blue-white shining star and is among the top 10 brightest stars visible from Earth. This supergiant star is believed to be approximately 8 million years old and is significantly larger and more massive than the Sun.  (NASA/Rheinhold Wittich)
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5/5 Giant 100-bn star Spiral Galaxy (April 8) – It is Messier 100 (M100), a grand spiral galaxy of over 100 billion stars with well-defined spiral arms that is similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy. It is 56 million light-years distant towards the constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices). ( NASA, ESA, Hubble)
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A C-class solar flare erupted from solar region AR3272. (NASA SDO)
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