Decagon on Saturn’s South Pole (NASA Science, Hubble Image)
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/04/2026
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS CAN SEE SATURN’S DECAGON: This week, NASA released new images from Hubble showing a 10-sided cloud surrounding Saturn’s south pole. It’s called “The Decagon.” Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes can not only see it, they actually discovered it.
SOLAR FLARE ALERT: 09/02/2026
Earth-orbiting satellites have just detected a M3.0 class solar flare at 02-Sep-2026 at 19:20:00 UTC. More information follows by email. An R1 (minor) radio blackout is possible on the sunlit side of Earth.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 08/11/2026
RARE ‘POINT METEOR’: The Perseid meteor shower is underway, but this was no Perseid. On Aug. 9th, Dan Bush’s night-sky camera in Albany, Missouri, recorded a rare ‘point meteor’:
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 03/16/2024
SOMETHING FLARE-Y THIS WAY COMES: Today, March 16th (1635 UT), Earth-orbiting satellites detected an impulsive M3.5-class solar flare. The source was just behind the sun’s southeastern limb.
RESOURCE: The National Solar Observatory (NSO) is the national center for ground-based solar physics in the United States (www.nso.edu) and is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences.
THE SUN’S MAGNETIC POLES ARE DISAPPEARING: The sun is about to lose something important: Its magnetic poles.
Recent measurements by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory reveal a rapid weakening of magnetic fields in the polar regions of the sun. North and south magnetic poles are on the verge of disappearing. This will lead to a complete reversal of the sun’s global magnetic field perhaps before the end of the year.
