10 supercharged solar storms that blew us away in 2024

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The year 2024 has seen the sun in full force due to the explosive peak of the sun's roughly 11-year solar cycle officially arrived and as a result, powerful solar storms have been hitting Earth.
The most powerful solar flare of the current solar cycle was unleashed on Oct. 3, making it the sun's strongest outburst in more than seven years.
In early May, people across the globe were treated to the most widespread auroral display in living memory, which lasted between May 10 and May 12.
On April 8, millions of people across North America witnessed a total solar eclipse as the moon passed directly between Earth and the sun.
On Oct. 10-11, another wave of widespread auroras swept across large parts of the globe caused by a severe geomagnetic storm.
On April 23, a rare phenomenon occurred across large parts of the sun: a quadruple solar flare.
In late February, X-class triplets erupted from the sun in less than 24 hours, which had respective magnitudes of X1.8, X1.7, and X6.3, which was a record for the current solar cycle.
On Aug. 5, a pair of X-class flares erupted from the sun in quick succession less than two hours apart.
In early August, Earth was hit by an unusually large and complex CME that formed via an act of solar cannibalism.
On Feb. 17, a solar flare exploded from a sunspot near the sun's south pole, releasing a gigantic column of plasma that towered around 124,000 miles (200,000 km) above the solar surface.

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