#solarflare

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

Big #sunspot AR3590 is as dangerous as it looks. Late yesterday (Feb. 21 @ 2307 UT), the active region produced a powerful X1.8-class #solarflare with a shortwave radio blackout over the western USA and Pacific Ocean. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme #ultraviolet #flash:

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The explosion did not produce a CME, at least not a bright one. NOAA analysts are still inspecting SOHO coronagraph data for signs of a storm cloud. If they find one, it will be reported here.

This could be the first of many flares from AR3590. The sunspot has an unstable 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for multiple #X-class #explosions

https://spaceweather.com/

nowisthetime@pod.automat.click

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Yesterday, a pair of bright #CMEs left the #sun. Both are off target:

The CME on the right is debris from a magnetic filament, which erupted near the sun's southwestern limb on Sept. 23rd (1330 UT). The #CME on the left came from new sunspot AR3110. An M1-class #solarflare hurled it into #space (1810 UT). The bright light at 3 o'clock is Venus. None of these things will hit our planet.

The sun can't keep missing forever, can it? Active sunspot AR3110 is turning toward #Earth and will soon be in the strike zone