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The past few weeks or so have been a very busy time for the Sun. Our star has undergone a series of giant eruptions that have sent plasma hurtling through space. Perhaps the most dramatic was a powerful coronal mass ejection and solar flare that erupted from the far side of the Sun on February … Read more
A CME erupted on Jan. 30, 2022 and is set to arrive at Earth on Feb. 2, 2022. (Image credit: SOHO) A powerful solar flare has been traveling through space and it will arrive at planet Earth Wednesday (Feb. 2). In the early hours of Saturday morning (Jan. 30), a coronal mass ejection, a powerful … Read more
Our sun just had a medium-sized energy burp. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught a mid-level solar flare on Wednesday (Jan. 20) with a peak at 1:01 a.m. EST (0601 GMT). You can see the flash on the limb, or edge, of the sun, thanks to SDO’s powerful imaging. Because the flare was on the … Read more
After a series of eruptions on the Sun, Earth may be in for auroras over the next few days. A sunspot called AR2929 has emitted two solar flares, accompanied by coronal mass ejections. Although neither was directed at Earth, the ejections that are currently blasting through space may deliver glancing blows to our planet’s atmosphere that … Read more