Light that Over-Flows
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 04/10/2025
PLASMA FALLS: Imagine a waterfall made of hot plasma falling from a precipice tall enough to swallow Earth.
Tag Archive | GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G1)
SPACEWEATHER: Sun Crackling with Flares
Pulses of extreme ultraviolet radiation
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 11/07/2024
THE SUN IS CRACKLING WITH FLARES: A phalanx of southern sunspots is turning toward Earth, and they are crackling with solar flares. During the past 24 hours, Earth-orbiting satellites have detected multiple M-class flares and one intense X-flare:
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SPACEWEATHER: Comet Falling Into the Sun, CME Auroras, and the Sun Today
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 10/27/2024
A COMET IS FALLING INTO THE SUN: Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is falling into the sun. Look in the lower right corner of this Oct 26th coronagraph movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):
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SPACEWEATHER: ‘ANTI-TAIL’ OF COMET TSUCHINSHAN-ATLAS AND PLANETS RETROGRADE
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-Atlas), Taken by Nick James on October 14, 2024 @ La Palma, 2100m
The Truth isn’t always what it appears to be.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 10/15/2024
THE ‘ANTI-TAIL’ OF COMET TSUCHINSHAN-ATLAS: Comet tails are supposed to point away from the sun. Last night, Nick James of the British Astronomical Association photographed a tail pointing in the opposite direction. “The ‘anti-tail’ looked amazing in this image of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS I took from 2100m on La Palma,” says James.
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SPACEWEATHER: Severe Magnetic Storms and Orange Auroras
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 08/16/2024
AURORAS SHOULD NOT BE ORANGE (BUT THEY ARE): During this week’s severe (G4-class) geomagnetic storm, Tony Bendele of Pennsylvania saw something rare and a little mysterious. “Orange auroras!” he says. “Yes, Orange. I had never seen this color in auroras before.” He took this picture before sunrise on Aug. 12th:
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SPACEWEATHER: Venus Blue Flash, Geomagnetic Storm Watch, Jupiter/Mars Conjunction
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 08/15/2024
A BLUE FLASH FROM VENUS: Italian photographer Paolo Palma was watching Venus sink into the sunset on Aug. 12th when something extraordinary happened. A piece of the planet broke away and turned blue:
