A behemoth Sunspot is on the way to the Earth-facing side and eaglets at Big Bear Valley are practicing for a near-future launch into their first flight.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/23/2026
A LARGE SUNSPOT IS COMING: Europe’s Solar Orbiter can see something we can’t: A large sunspot on the farside of the sun. For the past three days, the distant research spacecraft has been watching the sunspot approach the farside’s edge:
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/22/2026
MAJOR FLARE WATCH: Don’t be surprised if there is an X-flare today. New sunspot 4473, just arrived from the farside of the sun, is crackling with solar flares. The strongest so far almost crossed the threshold into category X:
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/21/2026 UPDATED
SOLAR FLARE ALERT: Earth-orbiting satellites have just detected a M6.8 class solar flare at 21-Jun-2026 at 19:29:00 UTC.
Structured Airglow, Taken by Aaron Watson on June 13, 2026 @ West Elk Mountains, Colorado
Days surrounding the New Moon, June 15, 2026, offer the dark skies for stargazing. The “anti-Russell-McFerron Effect” may be the reason that CME’s haven’t landed as hard as expected.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/14/2026
LOOK FOR AIRGLOW TONIGHT: There’s a new Moon on June 14th. That means it’s a good night to look for airglow. Aaron Watson photographed the phenomenon on June 13th from the West Elk Mountains of Colorado:
Venus & Jupiter Taken by Dr. Sebastian Voltmer on June 9, 2026 @ Saarland, Germany
Details:
Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, captured on June 9-10, 2026, framed by the “Wortsegel” (monument to poetry) in Saarland, Germany. The 13-meter steel sculpture by artist Heinrich Popp turns the sky itself into part of the artwork. Seeing Jupiter and Venus suspended between the crescent-shaped arches felt quietly magical.
Photographer’s website:
https://instagram.com/sebastianvoltmer
Jupiter and Venus, Taken by Eric G David on June 10, 2026 @ King George, Virginia
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/11/2026
MERCURY RISING TO JOIN VENUS AND JUPITER: Around the world this week, people have been watching Venus and Jupiter converge in the evening sky. Mercury is about to join them. The first planet is rising out of the sunset, as shown in this photo from Eric G. David of King George, Virginia:
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 06/04/2026
WHAT IS A CANNIBAL CME? Just what it sounds like. A CME that eats other CMEs. Yesterday, sunspot 4455 exploded several times and hurled multiple CMEs into space. One of the CMEs was so fast, it caught a slower CME and swallowed it. This NOAA model shows what happened:
AN ANTI-HALE SUNSPOT IS X-FLARING: This was not in the forecast. During the early hours of June 3rd, sunspot 4455 unexpectedly began to erupt, producing a series of X-class and almost-X-class solar flares:
Sunspot 4455 Explosion
ANTI-HALE SUNSPOT TARGETS EARTH: Solar activity is intensifying today following a strong M9-class solar flare from anti-Hale sunspot 4455. “Anti-Hale” means the sunspot has a reversed-polarity magnetic field, which makes it unstable and explosive.
SPACWEATHER ALERT:
Earth-orbiting satellites have just detected an M9.3-Class Solar Flare at June 3, 2026, 01:36:00 UTC. Updates will be posted on Spaceweather.com.
