Here is a beautiful aurora sparked by the CME that hit the earth.
SOLSTICE GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on Dec. 21st, sparking a G1-class geomagnetic storm. For sky watchers around the Arctc Circle, the longest night of the year was filled with colorful lights. Truls Tiller sends this picture from Tromsdalen, Norway:
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2014
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Beautiful, indeed ! Just in time, too, for the Feast of the Conception of St Anna.
It surely pays to live in northern Norway to be able to see firsthand all these wonderful displays !
Another beautiful Arctic Circle Aurora from Tromsø, Norway.
"Vi var ute og leverte julegaver, bare måtte stoppe litt... 5min ble 5timer....," says aurora tour guide Marianne Bergli, who photographed the display in Tromsø, Norway. "God jul alle sammen." Translated: "We were out delivering Christmas gifts and just had to stop a bit ... 5 minutes became 5 hours. Merry Christmas everyone!"
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I'm sure you've seen this Maria. But, it is amazing!
The sun is actively flaring with THREE M-Class flares today (according to Universal Time).
01:00 UT (5:00 PM PST) - M2 class
05:30 UT (9:30 PM PST) - M1 class
06:05 UT(10:05 PM PST) - M1 class
See this link for the one minute data:
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/go ... 6-hour.gif
Sunspot number: 181 -- Our sun is peppered with quite a few large sunspots.
See http://www.spaceweather.com for current update in sunspot numbers.
Monster sunspot 2277 is just emerging. It is most likely the source of all the recent activity.
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At 12:16 UT (04:16 AM PST), we had another M2 class solar flare. That makes four M-Class solar flares within 24 hours.
See this graph: http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/goes-xray-flux.gif
Four sunspots have 'beta-gamma' magnetic fields that harbor energy for M-class solar flares: AR2268, AR2271, AR2275 and AR2277. Credit: SDO/HMI
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NASA said that the sun was flatlined.
Well, that all changed yesterday (March 2 Universal Time) with four M-class solar flares: two M1 Class flares and two M4 Class Flares
Now today (March 3 UT) , we have had an M8 Class solar flare.
See http://www.spaceweather.com for more details.
M8 0135 UT Mar03
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