[SFDXA] X2.2 solar flare with earth-directed CME - SpaceWeatherLive News

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    X2.2 solar flare with earth-directed CME
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/Published on Feb 18, 2023 12:55 pm/

A major long duration X2.28 solar flare (R3-strong) took place yesterday 
and reached its peak at 20:17 UTC. This is the strongest solar flare of 
Solar Cycle 25 thus far and we can thank sunspot region 3229 for that. 
This sunspot region is currently close to the north-east limb and the 
solar flare was highly eruptive. Despite the region's location near the 
limb, we can not rule out a glancing blow from this plasma cloud.

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