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Sun’s farside activity

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Image credit: TW

This morning, March 4th, multiple flares erupted behind the sun’s eastern limb. NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft detected a shadowy shock wave in the sun’s atmosphere while the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded at least two plasma clouds billowing into space. Today’s blasts were not Earth-directed, but future blasts could be geoeffective as the active zone turns toward our planet in the days ahead

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