IKBFU Astronomers Capture Extreme Solar Flare

Members of the IKBFU Astronomical Society produced a number of pictures and animations illustrating various forms of solar activity during the recent solar storms. This level of activity is expected, as the 11-year solar cycle is approaching its maximum.

The animation, produced by combining a large number of frames, is highly sped up — an hour’s worth of footage is packed into a few seconds. In order to obtain such a clear animation, it was necessary to collect as many as 175 thousand photos, totalling more than half a terabyte!
Alexey Baigashov, Head of the IKBFU Astronomical Society

Each “loop” could easily encompass our entire planet, and the AR3664 region is dozens of times larger than the Earth’s surface. The activity in this region caused the so-called May 2024 solar storms.