The quiet didn’t last long!!
Earth-orbiting satellites detected an M3-class solar flare at 0735 UTC on Feb. 24th. The source was an active region located just behind the sun’s eastern limb. The eruption produced strong radio emissions, a coronal mass ejection (not Earth directed), and this spectacular picture taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:
Eastern Blast from the Sun
![easternblast_strip](https://www.m0oxo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/easternblast_strip.jpg)