The powerful magnetic storm expected on April 1 ultimately did not begin. An enormous plasma cloud, whose size is estimated at several tens of millions of kilometers, somehow got "lost" on its way to our planet, the Laboratory of Solar Astronomy of IKI and ISZF SB RAS reported.
It had previously been reported that a coronal plasma ejection after a powerful X-class flare was moving toward Earth and could trigger a magnetic storm up to G4 level. However, in reality this did not happen.
Traces of the ejection turned out to be undetectable. Although initially this coronal mass ejection was considered one of the most powerful in the past two months. Specialists had warned that, with a favorable trajectory, it could provoke strong geomagnetic disturbances as well as auroras.
Scientists are now continuing to analyze data from spacecraft and solar observatories to understand what exactly happened to the plasma ejection.
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