Solar Flare May 2024. In may 2024, there was a series of very strong solar storms that generated extreme solar flares. This video highlights all flares.

This solar flare is the largest of solar cycle 25 and is classified as an x8.7 flare. Like all comets, c/2024 s1 (atlas) was essentially a dirty snowball, a frozen body composed of gases, rocks and dust left over from the earliest days of our solar system.