Translated with AI from the Russian original.
Since the beginning of August, a noticeable activation has been recorded on the Sun - a series of class M flares, which belong to the strong category. The latest event occurred on Friday morning, August 8, at 06:53 Moscow time. The flare reached level M2.8, according to the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
This is already the eighth class M flare since the beginning of the month. All of them occurred after a month and a half break in solar activity. According to experts, they are concentrated in the same active group of sunspots. The most powerful to date is a flare of level M4.4.
Two strong flares were recorded on August 7: in the morning - level M2.2, in the afternoon - level M3.9, lasting 68 minutes.
Specialists from the Institute of Applied Geophysics (IPG) warn that such bursts of solar activity can affect the operation of radio communications, navigation systems, and, in the event of increased flares, provoke geomagnetic storms on Earth.
So far, the flares have not reached the most powerful - X-class, but scientists continue to monitor, as the current activity indicates the possibility of further events.
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