Sun Unleashes Large Solar Flare Which Could Lead to Spectacular Auroras This Weekend: Experts

An X1.0 class solar flare flashes in center of the Sun on Oct. 28, 2021. NASA/GSFC/SDO

A large coronal mass ejection (CME) is expected to collide with the Earth’s magnetic field on Oct. 30 following an incredible solar flare eruption on Thursday.

The sun unleashed an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, on Thursday. It peaked at 11:35 a.m.EDT (1535 GMT), according to an alert from the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).