“The Sun emitted a strong solar flare on June 3, peaking at 7:28 a.m. ET,” NASA, the federal body constantly watching the sun through its Solar Dynamics Observatory, said. The observatory captured an image of the event now released to the public.

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission captured an X1.1-class solar flare. See time-lapse footage of the blast that caused "a strong shortwave radio blackout over South America," according to Space Weather.

The Sun emitted a strong solar flare that peaked at 7:28 a.m. ET on June 3. The flare was classified as an X1.0, with X-class indicating the most intense flares and the number specifying its strength, according to an announcement from NASA.

Sunspot region 4455 unleashed three powerful solar flares within a single 24-hour window: an M9.3, an M7.7, and an X1.0. The rapid-fire sequence, recorded in NOAA’s official daily event logs, compressed an unusual amount of energy release into a short span,

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Extremely active sunspot AR3664 blasted a major X8.7-class solar flare. The sunspot was behind the incredible geomagnetic storms that recently bathed Earth in auroras. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA,

Four coronal mass ejections are colliding with Earth’s magnetic field after an X1.0 solar flare erupted from the Sun, and NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G3 strong geomagnetic storm watch covering June 4 through June 5 UTC.