Solar flare likely to hit earth on Saturday, could disrupt GPS signals: NASA

 

The Sun shot off a "huge" sunlight based flare which was caught by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The flare came from a sunspot called AR2887 topping at 11:35 AM EDT on October 28, 2021. The significance of the a sunspot is that it decides whether the enormous sun powered flare could cause anyharm to earth, and in light of its area the flare was situated in the focal point of the sun and confronting the Earth, Spaceweather.com announced.