Hear what a powerful solar flare sounds like when it hits the Earth

The Sun recently experienced an X-class flare, one of the most powerful a star is capable of. Huge

the explosion resulted in a rarely observed “solartsunami" on the surface of the Sun and caused an intense surge of radiation that caused a blackout of radio communications on Earth. Hi-Tech previously wrote about this. Amateur radio astronomer and scientist Thomas Ashcraft, who lives in New Mexico, managed to make a rare audio recording of a radio burst hitting the planet. Sound consists of interference created by radiation that enters the atmosphere.

The outbreak on February 17 resulted ina type II radio burst that struck the Earth shortly after the burst. This is one of the most powerful events in the radio emission of a star in the meter wavelength range.

Radiation ionized the upper atmosphere,causing minor radio blackouts in parts of America. There are five categories of solar radio bursts. Type I is the weakest, and type V is the strongest, capable of causing large-scale and long-lasting power outages.

Sound fragment of a radio pulse hitting the Earth. By Thomas Ashcraft

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