Tag Archive | geomagnetic storm watch

SPACEWEATHER: Earth’s Ring System is Leaking

Aurora Australis, Taken by Fabrizio Melandri on October 11, 2025 @ Nugget Point Lighthouse, New Zealand

Effects of Geomagnetic Storms

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 10/11/2025

EARTH’S RING CURRENT IS LEAKING: This morning in New Zealand, Fabrizio Melandri observed a red arc in the sky near the Nugget Point Lighthouse. It’s a sign that Earth’s ring system is leaking:

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SPACEWEATHER: Widespread Auroras

Aurora from the flight deck, Taken by Matt Melnyk on September 1, 2025 @ Northern Ontario & Hudson Bay

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/02/2025 UPDATED

CME IMPACT SPARKS WIDESPREAD AURORAS: As predicted, a CME struck Earth’s magnetic field on Sept. 1st (2100 UTC). The impact was abrupt and strong, bringing solar winds faster than 600 km/s (1.3 million mph), and a G2-class geomagnetic storm. Pilot Matt Melnyk photographed the auroras from the cockpit of a Dreamliner flying over Canada’s Hudson Bay

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SPACEWEATHER: Auroras and Geomagnetic Storm Watch

Aurora Borealis, Taken by Alan C Tough on September 2, 2025 @ Elgin, Moray, Scotland, UK

Storms Likely with Accelerating Light

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/02/2025

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: A geomagnetic storm watch is in effect on Sept. 2nd as Earth passes through the wake of a CME that struck yesterday. Category G1 (Minor) storms are likely with a chance of escalating to category G3 (Strong). High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras.

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SPACEWEATHER: Christmas Begins with an Eruption of Light

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 12/25/2024

CHRISTMAS FLARE: Christmas began with a bang. At 0449 UT on Dec. 25th, active sunspot 3932 produced a strong M4.9-class solar flare. NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash:

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SPACEWEATHER: Another X-Class Solar Flare

AR3878 X2-Class Flare

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 10/31/2024 UPDATED

ANOTHER X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Active sunspot AR3878 erupted again today (Oct. 31st @ 2120 UTC), producing an X2-class solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a spray of hot plasma emerging from the blast site:

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SPACEWEATHER: M7-Class Solar Flare w/o CME

Light that is not what it appears to be

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 10/31/2024

ALL FLARE AND NO CME: Every strong solar flare produces a CME, right? Not so fast. Solar flares and CMEs don’t always go together. Yesterday’s M7-class flare from sunspot AR3878 is a great example:

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SPACEWEATHER: A Colossal Prominence of the Sun

Our Source of Light and Life

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 10/30/2024

A COLOSSAL SOLAR PROMINENCE: Argentine astronomer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau is a longtime observer of the sun, and he is not easily impressed. “Yesterday,” he says, “I was impressed. On the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 29th, the sun put on a spectacular show. Through my Coronado solar telescope, I captured this colossal prominence.”

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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:

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SPACEWEATHER: Fireballs, Meteors, and Sunspot Count at 23-Year High

Artwork DMalmos, Spaceweather.com Fireball Network report

Fireball Network Art: DMalmos, from Aug 02, 2024, the network report, 38 fireballs. (24 sporadics, 8 Perseids, 3 southern Delta Aquariids, 3 alpha Capricornids)

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: AUGUST 3, 2024

All Sky Fireball Network
Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth’s atmosphere and many other characteristics. Daily results are presented on Spaceweather.com.

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SPACEWEATHER: Multiple Solar Flares from Sunspot AR3663

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 05/05/2024

A LOT OF SOLAR FLARES: By the time you finish reading this, there will probably be another solar flare. Sunspot AR3663 is crackling with them, including multiple X and near-X flares in the past 48 hours.

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