SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/26/2025
SHARK’S FIN AURORA: On Sept. 22nd, photographer Karsten Berger of High Level, Alberta, captured a striking auroral shape: a razor-sharp green triangle jutting into the night like the fin of a shark. It may have been the crest of a breaking Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) wave:
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: March 27, 2024 (03/27/2024)
CHANCE OF FLARES TODAY: Although it has been mostly quiet for the past 48 hours, sunspot AR3615 poses a continued threat for strong solar flares. The giant active region an unstable delta-class magnetic field that harbors potential energy for significant eruptions. NOAA forecasters say there is a 75% chance of M-class flares and a 25% chance of X-flares on March 27th.
I was engaged by the following YouTube video, and trying to authenticate the truth via NASA or some other more familiar secondary source for astronomy news. Secrets of the Universe is the YouTube channel, with articles published by an astrophysicist in India.
NASA’s Hubble telescope capture of a Supernova was another interesting news story, reported November 9, 2022.
I’m not sure what I’m looking for as an amatuer astronomer, but there are some interesting recent discoveries and activities among the stars in outer-space. Tonight, 11/27/2022, auroras are forecast over a broad area that reaches as far south as the USA.
