Massive Solar Flare Expected To Strike Earth Imminently

But what makes this sunspot even more uncommon is that of the few that deviate from Hale’s Law, nearly all show a reversed polarity of +-. Sunspot AR3784 is considered by scientists to be an ultra-rare type that “corkscrews” magnetic polarities together.

When this happens, the opposites that are forced together too tightly explode into a powerful solar flare, which is what happened on August 14.

For those who might have snoozed during astronomy class, a solar flare is when the sun’s gaseous surface experiences explosions from the magnetic energy that has been contained and compressed for too long.

These events are sorted into varying classes, beginning with the A-Class flares. The weakest category of this event has zero impact on the Earth.