New Delhi: An X1.7 solar flare erupted from the Sun on 09 November at 07:19 UTC, resulting in an asymmetric halo coronal mass ejection (CME), launching a cloud of charged plasma towards the Earth. The material is expected to wash over the Earth on 11 November. The source is a cluster of sunspots designated as Active Region 4274 by the Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC) operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Sunspot Group 687 by the Solar Influences Data Analysis Centre (SIDC) operated by the Royal Observatory of Belgium. According to the SIDC, “A preliminary estimate of the CME velocity is around 744........

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