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.”
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:
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.
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.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: NOVEMBER 24, 2023
SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE ON THE SUN: But what? The face of the sun is peppered with active regions and unstable magnetic filaments. This image from Mike Borman of Evansville, Indiana, shows some of the possible blast sites.
