SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/03/2024
MAJOR FARSIDE EXPLOSION: Earlier today (0800 UT on Sept. 3rd), something exploded on the farside of the sun. It was a big one. SOHO coronagraphs detected a bright halo CME flying almost directly away from Earth:
Sunspot AR3691 Erupts, Animation on Spaceweather.com
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: JUNE 3, 2024
THIS ERUPTION WILL PROBABLY MISS EARTH: Sunspot AR3691 erupted today (1411 UT), producing an M4.8-class solar flare and hurling a gorgeous plume of hot plasma into space.
Greetings Beloved Kin,
The photographer didn’t identify whether this is Venus or Saturn in the photo of the Noctilucent clouds over Poland. The Full Thunder Supermoon is reflected in today’s weather in Coffeyville, KS and surrounding area. The sky is dark and rumbling with warnings of high winds later this morning. We can use the rain, forecast to change from light to moderate as the winds blow storm clouds this way.
The Sun produced an X-class flare on July 2, 2023. Though not a direct blow toward Earth, it’s likely to produce sky events like the Noctilucent clouds captured in the photo.
SPACEWEATHER NEWS: JULY 5, 2023
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: NOAA forecasters say that G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on July 7th when a partial halo CME is expected to hit Earth’s magnetic field. It was hurled in our direction yesterday by an explosion in the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR3359.
SUNSPOT COUNTS HIT A 21-YEAR HIGH: The sun is partying like it’s 2002. That’s the last time sunspot counts were as high as they are now. The monthly average sunspot number for June 2023 was 163, according to the Royal Observatory of Belgium’s Solar Influences Data Analysis Center. This eclipses every month since Sept. 2002.
EarthSky.org: Ancient Solar Activity – This artist’s concept showcases an active sun: a solar flare, a coronal mass ejection or CME and a solar energetic particle event. Image via NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Posted by Kelly Kizer Whitt
Our sun has been active this week. And its overall activity is increasing as it nears solar maximum, expected for the mid-2020s. But, even at maximum, solar activity is nothing now in contrast to the young sun’s activity during Earth’s formative years. During Earth’s first 100 million years, when the sun was only about 1/3 as bright as it is now, it popped off strong solar eruptions known as superflares about every three to 10 earthly days. Those superflares – powerful explosions on our star, with energies 10 thousand times greater than typical solar flares – occur today only about every 100 years. According to a new study – previewed online by NASA on May 2, 2023 – life might have arisen when solar particles from these events collided with gasses in Earth’s early atmosphere.
And so the sun – our life-giving star, which sustains us with its light and warmth – might also have kickstarted earthly life.
Complete Article on EarthSky.org
KRTV – Viewer photos of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) over Montana – February 26-27, 2023
SPACEWEATHER.COM – February 27, 2023
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WARNING: Strong G3-class geomagnetic storms are possible on Feb. 27th and 28th when another CME could strike Earth’s magnetic field–the second in as many days. The first CME, which arrived during the late hours of Feb. 26th, has already sparked multiple episodes of strong storming with widespread auroras in northern Europe and North America. A double blow could intensify the storm even more.
