By Sher Zieve – Professor James McCanney, M.S.-Physics said Thursday that a new cycle of powerful X-9 solar flares have already begun. The renewed solar activity began on 5 December and is said to be increasing.

Russian scientists are also warning about the solar flares. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency writes: “An X9 solar flare was registered last Tuesday. Over 30 years of regular X-ray observations of the sun, only about 25 powerful flares have been registered, and they had never previously been observed in the solar minimum [the lowest point of the sun's 11-year activity cycle]. This is surprising, because normally such flares occur at the peak of the sun's activity."


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