Solar Orbiter has already taken the closest picture of the Sun to date, and it will only get closer. Solar Orbiter’s official mission begins in November, when SoloHI and the…
Tag: Space weather
In First, Scientists Trace Fastest Solar Particles to Their Roots on the Sun
“Normally, you have to infer this kind of thing – you’d say, ‘look we saw an SEP and a solar flare, and the SEP probably came from the solar flare,’”…
Climate Craziness of the Week: The Weather Channel on crack
No, really, they must have been on crack when they came up with this one. I have no other explanation that works. First a primer. What is “Space Weather”? Wikipedia…
X-Class solar flare blasts CME directly at Earth
Large sunspot Group AR1520, seen below just right of center, was pointed directly at Earth when the flare occurred. The GOES Xray Flux spike hit X 1.4, just barely an…
Geomagnetic solar storm in progress
Spaceweather.com reports: A strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) at approximately 12:15 UT on Sept. 26th.
Largest space weather storm in at least four years
More solar images at the WUWT Solar Reference Page From the: University of Colorado at Boulder Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies A powerful solar flare has ushered in…
First Large-Scale, Physics-Based Space Weather Model Transitions Into Operation
Provides forecasters with one-to-four-day advance warning of ‘solar storms’ A coronal mass ejection (CME) in a model; the CME is the gray cloud toward the lower right. Credit and Larger…
