As the Sun Turns: Solar Minimums and Maximums

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Re: Our Sun is active as we are in a Solar Maximum

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Huge Sunspot 2192 is the largest sunspot in 25 years.

It has unleashed many X-class and M-class solar flares these past 10 days.

Now it is going around to the other side.

However, today, it has blasted us with multiple M-class solar flares with one going on right now at M3.5 and rising.

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Monster Sunspot 2192 has departed from the sunny side of the sun.

Here is a gorgeous aurorea from Frank Olsen in Norway.

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Re: Our Sun is active as we are in a Solar Maximum

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Wow !!! Thank you, Maria, I would never have seen this outstanding, almost otherworldly, pic ! A talented
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Earth is passing through a fast-moving stream of solar wind, and this is stirring auroras around the Arctic Circle bright enough to see through the glare of the nearly-full Moon. Tour guide Gunnar Hildonen sends this picture from Tromso, Norway:

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http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2014

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In the past 24 hours we have had four M-Class solar flares from the newly emerged Sunspot 2205.

X-ray Solar Flares

M5.4 0346 UT Nov06 7:46 PM PST
M3.2 0139 UT Nov06 5:39 PM PST
M2+ 1945 UT Nov05 11:45 AM PST
M7+ 0947 UT Nov05 1:47 AM PST

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Four more M-Flares have occurred since the last four occurred, and now an X1.6 class sun flare has exploded from Sunspot 2205:

X-FLARE! Active sunspot AR2205 erupted again on Nov. 7th (1726 UT) producing a potent X1-class solar flare and a CME. Extreme UV radiation from the flare ionized the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere, producing a short-lived HF radio blackout on the dayside of our planet. We do not yet know if the CME is Earth-directed. Stay tuned for updates.

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2014

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We recently had an M3.2 solar flare from that Monster sun spot which has returned from its two week journey around the sun.

Returning sunspot AR2192, re-numbered AR2209 for its second trip around the sun, has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares

http://www.spaceweather.com (Part of NOAA/NASA)

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