Old Sunspot 1431 is now rotating back into view off the southeast limb and is also producing solar flares. So far this afternoon it produced a minor C6.5 flare, followed by a moderate M1.0 event at 19:40 UTC. Various small sunspots did form including regions 1441, 1442
March 20th began with the vernal equinox and ended with this outburst of Spring-green over Tromsø, Norway: Spring is aurora season. For reasons not fully understood by scientists, the weeks around the vernal equinox are prone to Northern Lights. Auroras are
Old Sunspot 1429 continues to be active while transiting the farside of the Sun. This morning (March 21, 2012), AR1429 produced a solar flare which resulted in a bright Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). SOHO photographed the cloud expanding at 1550 km/s (3.5 million
The number of energetic electrons in Earth’s outer radiation belt is significantly elevated. According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the enhancement is caused by the aftermath of recent geomagnetic storms mixed with a high-speed solar wind stream.
Old sunspot AR1429 is still very active as it transits the far side of the sun. During the early hours of March 18th it produced a spectacular solar flare, blasted away from northwestern limb. Earth will not be affected by the CME cloud.Joint USAF/NOAA Report of
The flank of a CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on March 15th around 13:00 UTC. The impact sparked a moderate (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm. Beautifull auroras colored sky into March 16th. Here are some images and great timelapse-movie. Just outside
Sunspot 1434 located in the southern hemisphere, produced a rapid M1.3 Solar Flare at 20:39 UTC on March 17, 2012. A Type II Sweep Frequency Event with a velocity of 1140 km/s was detected as well. Analysis of the M1.3 flare is ongoing to determine if it was
To get an idea what does a solar storm sound like, a University of Michigan researcher has created a "sonification" of measurements from two spacecraft during the most recent storm. The researcher who created it is Robert Alexander, a University of Michigan de
A moderate M2.8 Solar Flare peaked at 15:21 on March 14, UTC, and was centered around Sunspot 1432 located towards the middle of the visible solar disk. Slow moving CME plasma cloud is seen in the latest STEREO Behind COR images and may be partially headed this
Solar maximum or solar max is the period of greatest solar activity in the solar cycle of the sun when large numbers of sunspots appear.This is the retrospective of events from January 1, 2012 – March 13, 2012.Video by: Zeljko MihajlovicA solar maximum is the
