Lazy Saturday morning and I opened the curtains with trepidation to see if the world is a crisp, scorched wasteland from the incoming radiation and energetic particles all night.
Appears everything is alright though.
I will need to get a broom and sweep up all the protons accumulated in my driveway though. Do you put protons in the green bin or the blue box? I forget.
NASA has predicted that a double solar storm attack will strike the Earth around 5:30 PM today, July 7. Know just how intense it can be and what to expect.
A notable #geomagnetic storm is expected to result from the arrival of a coronal mass ejection that erupted from the surface of the sun ☀️ on 📆 Saturday, Sept. 16 and was aimed in the direction of #Earth.
3664
is headed 'round the bend
no knowing when
we'll see its like again
for a short time
it lit up the night
so wave to it goodbye
as it heads around the limb
of the Sun
Getting some pretty amazing #aurora photos with a 4 second exposure at ISO 320 from my backyard in #Boulder thanks to our G5 #solarstorm big reds, oranges, and some greenish-blue streaks right now, at latitude 40°N 105°W - caught a helicopter, too
I've seen some UK news saying "There's a #SolarStorm coming! Maybe there will be #aurora!" Now I can 100% guarantee that Brits venturing out tonight in clear skies will see a glow to the North... but it almost certainly won't be aurora! It's mid May after all! So, for much of the country, the glow of twilight is visible all "night" (some parts of the UK actually have no astronomical night until August). So, unless it's a once in a lifetime display, twilight will make aurora-spotting impossible
Sunspot complex 3664 just let off an X8.8 flare pointed AWAY from Earth. This means (very sadly) we are unlikely to get another round of aurorae like last Friday.
But there is a lot left in this Solar Max, so keep watching.
TERRIFYING double solar storm to strike the Earth today, says NASA; Know the danger (tech.hindustantimes.com)
NASA has predicted that a double solar storm attack will strike the Earth around 5:30 PM today, July 7. Know just how intense it can be and what to expect.