Tag Archive | astronomy

SPACEWEATHER: Farside M3.3-Class Flare Emerging from the East

Jan12

Early Hours of Jan.12th

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 01/12/2026

SOMETHING FLARE-Y THIS WAY COMES: For the second time in a week, a significant CME has billowed away from the farside of the sun. The latest appeared during the early hours of Jan.12th following an M3.3-class flare just behind the sun’s eastern limb. These events are connected. An actively flaring sunspot group is about to emerge as the sun’s rotation turns it to face Earth later this week.

The animations reflect the scale of the activity.

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SPACEWEATHER: The Sound of Light

Dec14

The Light to See and the Ears to Hear

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 12/14/2025

DO YOU HAVE METEORITES ON YOUR ROOF? The question is not as crazy as it sounds. Researchers estimate that micrometeorites 0.1 mm wide fall about once a year per square meter. A typical rooftop therefore collects hundreds per year. In the Lofoten Islands of Norway, Rob Stammes thinks he may have recorded the pitter-patter of meteorites on his own roof. 

Above: The microphone under Rob Stammes’ roof. Inset: A sample 0.4 mm micrometeorite collected from a rain gutter in Alabama.

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SPACEWEATHER: Earth Exiting the Solar Wind; Shark Fin Aurora

Sep26

The Light Making Waves

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:

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SPACEWEATHER: Sunspot AR 3615 Enters the “Danger Zone”

Mar27

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.

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Cosmic Blast – Supernova Captured by NASA Telescope

Nov27

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.

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