Solar Flare 2024 April 23. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (cme) will likely become more probable and impactful space weather events may be possible in 2024. And if it happens during totality, we could see a cme in real time.
The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in blue. On the afternoon of april 23, 2023, at 2:12 pm edt, a moderate solar flare (m1.7) erupted from the sun expelling a billion tons of superheated magnetized gas from the sun known as plasma.