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THE BLUE SUPERMOON: Spoiler alert: It wasn’t blue. Last night’s perigean supermoon wowed observers around the world with 15% more luminosity than an ordinary full Moon. The family of Ali Rahimi witnessed the super moonrise from Isfahan, Iran:

Full Moon – Taken by Ali Rahimi on August 30, 2023 @ Isfahan,Iran. On the evening of Wednesday, August 30, my father and I decided to photograph the sunrise of the super moon My father went to the top of a hill with my uncle and my cousin’s son. My distance to the hill and subjects was about 900 meters.

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Spaceweather: And Eruption of Darkness Cast off by the Sun

Jul16

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS JULY 16, 2023

IS A ‘CANNIBAL CME’ COMING? One CME left the sun on July 14th, followed by a second faster CME on July 15th. According to a NOAA model, the second CME will sweep up the first, forming a ‘cannibal CME’ that hits Earth on July 18th. The impact could spark G1 to G2-class geomagnetic storms.

A DARK ERUPTION ON THE SUN (UPDATED): One of the most visually dramatic eruptions of Solar Cycle 25 occured on July 14th, when a spray of dark plasma flew away from the sun’s southern hemisphere. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the event.

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Space Weather: Sun Diving Comet and Solar Explosion of Light

Oct16

Sundiving Comet and Explosion of Light

SOURCE: Spaceweather.com, October 16, 2022
SUNDIVING COMET AND CME (UPDATED): The sun just swallowed a comet. On Oct. 15th, SOHO coronagraohs caught a Kreutz sungrazer diving into the sun just as a bright CME was leaving. Click to set the scene in motion.

Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a single giant comet many centuries ago. They get their name from German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who studied them in detail in the 19th century. Kreutz fragments pass by the sun and disintegrate almost every day; SOHO has seen thousands of them. Most, measuring less than a few meters across, are too small to see, but occasionally a bigger fragment like this one attracts attention.

The CME was *not* caused by the comet. It was hurled into space by a magnetic filament eruption in the sun’s southern hemisphere (movie) while the comet was still far away. NOAA analysts have modeled the CME and determined that it will not hit Earth.

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