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**kavaTeexy** · 09-24-2011, 02:15 PM

We aren't near this huge one that erupted in 2001. If you click on the link you can see the size of that sunspot and the flare that erupted.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/X17/

At 21:51 UT, Monday 2 April 2001, active region 9393 unleashed a major solar flare. Now reclassified as at least an X20, it appears to be the biggest X-ray flare on record, most likely bigger than the one on 16 August 1989, also an X20 flare, and definitely more powerful that the famous 6 March 1989 flare which was related to the disruption of the power grids in Canada. The big explosion, which took place near the Sun's northwest limb, hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space - at a whopping speed of roughly 7.2 million km/h - but not directly towards Earth.

09-24-2011, 02:15 PM	#7
kavaTeexy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	We aren't near this huge one that erupted in 2001. If you click on the link you can see the size of that sunspot and the flare that erupted. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/X17/ At 21:51 UT, Monday 2 April 2001, active region 9393 unleashed a major solar flare. Now reclassified as at least an X20, it appears to be the biggest X-ray flare on record, most likely bigger than the one on 16 August 1989, also an X20 flare, and definitely more powerful that the famous 6 March 1989 flare which was related to the disruption of the power grids in Canada. The big explosion, which took place near the Sun's northwest limb, hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space - at a whopping speed of roughly 7.2 million km/h - but not directly towards Earth.
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