Solar Flares May 10 2024. The intense auroras were spawned by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections that erupted from the sun earlier this week, flinging wave after. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares created from a mixture of sdo’s aia 193, 171 and 131.

Last weekend, the biggest solar storm to hit earth in over 20 years swept over our planet as the sun’s activity ramps up to the peak of its current solar cycle. A huge solar flare, the largest since 2017, has been spotted erupting from the sun’s surface.