NASA’s STEREO probes are monitoring strong activity on the far side of the sun. A spectacular CME erupted during the early hours of April 8th apparently from old sunspot AR1176. This is the second day in a row that the active region has hurled massive clouds into
The solar wind is blowing past earth at elevated levels today and combined with a south tilting Bz, is stirring up geomagnetic storming at high latitudes. C-Class flare activity is now taking place towards the new sunspot regions just to the east of Sunspot 1185. Keep
NASA twin STEREO spacecraft observed a spectacular coronal mass ejection launched from the vicinity of decaying sunspot 1176 on April 3rd around 0500 UT. The blast was not Earth directed. Nevertheless, there is a chance that the expanding cloud will deliver a glancing
Earth is entering a stream of solar wind blowing ~500 km/s, and the encounter is stirring up geomagnetic activity around the Arctic Circle. The solar wind data (velocity and proton density) presented on spaceweather.com are updated every 10 minutes. They are derived
A big sunspot is emerging over the sun’s southeastern limb, and it is crackling with activity. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sunspot’s magnetic canopy on March 21st:This appears to be the return of old
A huge filament of magnetism and hot plasma blasted off the sun’s southwestern limb on March 19th around 1200 UT. The eruption was not Earth-directed, but it did attract plenty of attention on our planet. Many amateur astronomers in Europe witnessed the blast and said
While we are still on impact of CME from X-flare events from March 9th, the sun got new M-class flare eruption.Effects from the 07 March CME was slowly subsiding during day one (11 March), but the arrival of a coronal hole high speed stream is expected to become
During the past 24 hours, aurora displays have descended as far south as Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan in the United States. Earth’s magnetic field is still reverberating from a CME strike on March 10th.Solar wind conditions favor more geomagnetic storming in
A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetic field on March 10th around 0630 UT. The impact, albeit weak, did provoke geomagnetic activity around the poles.Planetary K-indexNow: Kp= 5 storm24-hr max: Kp= 5 stormNewly-arriving coronagraph data from the Solar
UPDATE:A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetic field on March 10th around 0630 UT. Solar wind conditions, post-impact, are favorable for geomagnetic activity.March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class
