• Filament eruption produces large CME, slight graze possible

    A solar filament eruption centered near S35E50 took place around 20:00 UTC on March 5, 2024, producing a large coronal mass ejection (CME) which is expected to slightly graze Earth late March 8. G1 – Minor geomagnetic storms are possible on March 9 due to the combined effects of a negative polarity CH HSS and this CME.

  • Huge solar filament facing Earth

    A huge solar filament is facing Earth today and, if it doesn't erupt, will continue to do so in the coming days. Stretched out, it would be more than 857 780 km or 533 000 miles long, which is more than 67 Earth diameters. Image below shows this filament as…

  • Filament eruption creates canyon of fire, Earth directed CME

    Solar filament located in the southern hemisphere erupted at approximately 16:54 UTC on August 15, 2014, and launched a partial-halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) into space and toward our planet. NSO/GONG and SDO/AIA 193 and 304 imagery observed major portions of a

  • Huge solar filament collapses and causes Hyder flare

    A huge solar filament, located in the southeast quadrant and stretching across more than 500 000 km, collapsed around 14:30 UTC on June 4, 2014 and hit the solar surface causing a "Hyder flare" – a type of solar flare that occurs without the aid of sunspots.Co

  • Coronal Hole directly facing Earth, filament eruption

    Aside from a nice filament eruption and a Coronal Hole directly facing Earth, thus allowing solar material to freely rush in our direction, solar activity has been at low levels during last 30 hours.It is expected to remain low with a chance for M-cl

  • Weak CME impact and filament channel eruption on the Sun

    An interplanetary shock wave hit our planet's geomagnetic field on June 27, 2013 at approximately 14:20 UTC. Geomagnetic Sudden Impulse was registered at 14:40 UTC. The impact was relatively weak and has not caused a geomagnetic storming so far.

  • Prominent view

    The Sun is constantly roiling with nuclear heat and intense magnetism that make sunspots, flares, coronal mass ejections, and all sorts of space weather. When directed toward Earth, those solar blasts can disrupt satellite and radio communications, damage our