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🌞 📰 Sun news for June 15, 2024: Sunspot region growing quickly 👏 😎 Thanks to an isolated M flare and a notable flaring increase, sun activity reached moderate levels. Flare production climbed to 26 eruptions over the past day. The flaring increase and the M flare are due to the current stand-out region, AR3712. 🤔 🤩 Since its appearance, the active region has quickly increased in size and magnetic complexity. It has developed a delta region now with a beta-gamma-delta magnetic configuration

🌞 📰 Sun news for June 15, 2024: Sunspot region growing quickly 👏 😎 Thanks to an isolated M flare and a notable flaring increase, sun activity reached moderate levels. Flare production climbed to 26 eruptions over the past day. The flaring increase and the M flare are due to the current stand-out region, AR3712. 🤔 🤩 Since its appearance, the active region has quickly increased in size and magnetic complexity. It has developed a delta region now with a beta-gamma-delta magnetic configuration

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🌞 📰 Sun news July 5: Filaments and prominences all over the sun 🫣 😮 Even with two M flares bringing activity up to moderate, the most exciting part of the sun’s activity over the past day has been its many filaments and prominences. The solar disk is covered with large ropes of dense solar material (plasma) from lower in the solar atmosphere, supported higher in the solar corona by magnetic fields. 🤔 These are filaments, but they’re called prominences when we see them overhanging the sun's

🌞 📰 Sun news July 5: Filaments and prominences all over the sun 🫣 😮 Even with two M flares bringing activity up to moderate, the most exciting part of the sun’s activity over the past day has been its many filaments and prominences. The solar disk is covered with large ropes of dense solar material (plasma) from lower in the solar atmosphere, supported higher in the solar corona by magnetic fields. 🤔 These are filaments, but they’re called prominences when we see them overhanging the sun's

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🌞 📰 Sun news for May 8, 2024: X and M flares all day long 🫣 🤩 😱 Sun activity is at very high levels today with the production of two X flares and multiple M flares. Two active sunspot regions are the culprits of the X flares: AR3663 and AR3664. Added to the two Xs, the sun produced a long list of M flares, 17 in total. What a day! The sun continued to spark M and X flares all day. This is Solar Cycle 25, near or at its Max! 😎 AR3663 is getting closer to the limb (edge) on the northwest, ma

🌞 📰 Sun news for May 8, 2024: X and M flares all day long 🫣 🤩 😱 Sun activity is at very high levels today with the production of two X flares and multiple M flares. Two active sunspot regions are the culprits of the X flares: AR3663 and AR3664. Added to the two Xs, the sun produced a long list of M flares, 17 in total. What a day! The sun continued to spark M and X flares all day. This is Solar Cycle 25, near or at its Max! 😎 AR3663 is getting closer to the limb (edge) on the northwest, ma

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🌞 📰 Sun news for May 15, 2024: BAM! The largest flare of Cycle 25 so far 😱 👏 🫣 Sun activity is very high, with the production of three X flares during our observation period by active region AR3664: an X1.2 flare at 12:55 UTC on May 14, an X8.8 flare, the largest of the period, at 16:51 UTC on May 14, and an X3.5 blasted by AR3664 at 16:51 UTC on May 15. The X8.8 flare became a historic event since it is the 17th largest solar flare, slightly bigger than the infamous Bastille Day Flare of J

🌞 📰 Sun news for May 15, 2024: BAM! The largest flare of Cycle 25 so far 😱 👏 🫣 Sun activity is very high, with the production of three X flares during our observation period by active region AR3664: an X1.2 flare at 12:55 UTC on May 14, an X8.8 flare, the largest of the period, at 16:51 UTC on May 14, and an X3.5 blasted by AR3664 at 16:51 UTC on May 15. The X8.8 flare became a historic event since it is the 17th largest solar flare, slightly bigger than the infamous Bastille Day Flare of J

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🌞 Sun activity for November 15, 2023: Big Flare day 🤩 🥳 Whoa! A big increase in flaring! The sun produced 29 flares over the past 24 hours, in contrast to 19 the day before. It’s a sizable jump, especially considering that last week’s sun averaged just 5 flares a day. 😎 Elsewhere on the sun, one of the prominences (ropes of solar material and magnetic fields) that we saw yesterday on the sun’s southwest limb (edge) lifted off into space as a billion-ton blob of plasma. 🫣 This coronal mass e

🌞 Sun activity for November 15, 2023: Big Flare day 🤩 🥳 Whoa! A big increase in flaring! The sun produced 29 flares over the past 24 hours, in contrast to 19 the day before. It’s a sizable jump, especially considering that last week’s sun averaged just 5 flares a day. 😎 Elsewhere on the sun, one of the prominences (ropes of solar material and magnetic fields) that we saw yesterday on the sun’s southwest limb (edge) lifted off into space as a billion-ton blob of plasma. 🫣 This coronal mass e

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🌞 Sun activity November 9, 2023: Dancing prominences, plus jets and filaments 🤩 Although sun activity is classified as low, we’ve seen faint flares and jets around the solar disk over the past day, as well as a long-lasting prominence on the north pole. It’s been dancing mesmerizingly all day long, right on the limb—we've found it hard to stop watching! 🫣 😮 Elsewhere, sunspot region AR3483 has been growing since its arrival yesterday and has maintained its explosive activity. It has now deve

🌞 Sun activity November 9, 2023: Dancing prominences, plus jets and filaments 🤩 Although sun activity is classified as low, we’ve seen faint flares and jets around the solar disk over the past day, as well as a long-lasting prominence on the north pole. It’s been dancing mesmerizingly all day long, right on the limb—we've found it hard to stop watching! 🫣 😮 Elsewhere, sunspot region AR3483 has been growing since its arrival yesterday and has maintained its explosive activity. It has now deve

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🌞 📰 Sun news March 21, 2024: Active region AR3615 takes the lead 😎 🤩 🤔 Sun activity is moderate with an isolated M2 flare from leading active region AR3615. This sunspot group was almost the only flare producer of the period. AR3615 produced 10 of the 11 of the day, nine Cs, and the only M flare. AR3616 produced the other C flare. AR3614, formerly AR3590, producer of three X flares and the strongest of Solar Cycle 25 so far, has not been active during this second visit. Will it give us anot

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🌞 👀 Sun activity for November 14, 2023 See a solar jet blasting sun-stuff into space 🤩 🌎 Over the past day, we saw beautiful active filaments all over the Earth-facing sun. 😱 And early this morning, we saw the solar jet extending from the sun’s outer atmosphere. This jet isn’t made of ordinary matter. It’s a collimated, beam-like ejection of what’s called plasma, a fourth state of matter consisting of elementary particles and magnetic fields from our blazingly hot star. 😎 🥳 It’s this sola

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🌞 📰 Sun news for May 14, 2024: Departing X flare from AR3664 👋 🌞 🤩 Sun activity is high, with AR3664 producing an X flare. Perhaps this is the farewell X flare by this superactive sunspot as it moves out of view on the southwest limb, but even out of view, we may see more activity from it for the next two days. 👏 😎 During its transit, it produced several X flares and Ms, plus it was co-producer of the largest geomagnetic storm of Solar Cycle 25 so far. As it departs, the potential for an

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🌞 📰 Sun news for April 13, 2024: An M2.4 flare brings activity to moderate 😎 😮Sun activity is back to moderate levels with the production of an isolated M2.4 flare from an incoming as-yet-unnumbered active region in the southeast. 😱 The east continued its fiery activity the past day, but flaring production decreased. Those brave sunspot regions over the solar horizon on the east may show up any minute. An increase in solar activity is anticipated. 🤔 In the southwest, a long-lasting promine

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🌞 📰 Sun news for June 16, 2024: Eyes fixed on AR3712 😱 Sunspot region AR3712 continues to grow and produce most of the observed flares on the sun’s Earth-facing disk. Since June 12, the region has increased in size from the area of one Earth to the area of more than five Earths today. 😮 Sun activity has decreased to low levels, with only C flares produced over the past 24 hours. All 21 observed flares, except for one, came from AR3712. The region has also maintained its beta-gamma-delta magn

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🌞 Sun activity for November 4, 2023, The 20th anniversary of the largest solar flare🤩 🥳 😮 ❗ Today is the 20th anniversary of the largest solar flare of the space age. Between October 19 and November 5, 2003—during the waning part of sunspot cycle 23—a set of three surprisingly large sunspot regions emerged on the Earth-facing disk. They came into view after a period of relative calm on the sun. These massive, magnetically complex regions were the source of some of the largest space weather e

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🌞Sun activity November 11, 2023: Flares are increasing. CME arrives tonight 👏 Sun activity increased its flare production over the last 24 hours, with up to 20 C flares in the past day. All the action is on the western portion of the sun, in both the north and south quadrants. 🤩 In particular, the northwestern region produced a filament eruption in the vicinity of sunspot AR3481. It occurred at 7 UTC on November 11, 2023. The blast sent ejecta into space. Shortly before, active region AR3483—

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🌞 📰 Sun news for May 17, 2024: Large sunspot regions on both sides of the sun 🤔 Sun activity is back to low levels with the production of only faint C flares. A gorgeous prominence erupted near yesterday’s producer of an X3.0 flare, AR3685. After a glorious entrance blasting two Ms and an X flare in a row, today this active region reduced its activity to only three C flares during our observation period. Will AR3685’s activity pick back up? 😮 😎 The regions that produced all the exhilarating

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🌞 📰 Sun news for June 21, 2024: High activity from an unexpected region 😱 Sun activity has risen to high levels thanks to an impulsive M5.8 flare. Impulsive means short with no material eruption. This came unexpectedly from a newcomer sunspot region in the sun’s southeast quadrant, AR3719. The flash occurred at 23:16 UTC on June 20, causing an R2 (moderate) radio blackout affecting an area over the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Hawaii. 🫣 🥳 We have often said that the sun continues to

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🌞 📰 Sun news for April 2, 2024: Large sunspots seen from Mars now 🤔 👏 The Earth-facing solar disk is nearly spotless after weeks of moderate to high sun activity thanks to AR3615. This almost spotless sun is producing low activity, with barely any flares over the past 24 hours. The farside of the sun seen from Mars is another story. The Perseverance MASTCAM2 takes regular low-resolution images of the sun from the surface of Mars. Yesterday’s MASTCAM2 imagery clearly shows our old friend, AR3

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🌞 📰 Sun news March 18, 2024: Flares and filaments on the March Equinox 🤩 🫣 😮 Sun activity increased to high levels thanks to an M6.7 flare. Despite some expectations, this M flare did not come from the former AR3590 but from its new companion just appearing in the southeast, AR3615. AR3615 was the most active flare producer during the observation period including an additional M flare. The region is not very magnetically complex at the moment, so does not indicate a high chance for an X fla

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🌞Sun activity for Oct 11, 2023 is moderate with an isolated M2.3 flare from AR3451 at 12:17 UTC on October 10🤩😎The region fired the flare as it departed from over the limb. It has lost its delta region🤔😱 MORE: bit.ly/sunactivity | The Sun Today: Solar Facts and Space Weather

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🌞 📰 Sun news August 23: Intense activity on the sun’s far side 🤩 🫣 😮 The sun is active right now, but all is not as you might think. Observing our star with the SOHO spacecraft’s LASCO C2 and C3 coronagraphs, one can see a barrage of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) flying into space. 🤔 But if you look a little closer using extreme-ultraviolet imagery from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we see no notable CME activity on the solar disk. Combining all this data into the ENLIL solar syste

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🌞 📰 Sun news July 13: Magnetic storm at Earth, M flare on the sun 🤔 We’re awaiting a possible G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm due to high-speed solar wind from a coronal hole. Sun activity increased to moderate with an M1.4 flare over the past day. The M flare came from an unnumbered active region in the southwest. 🫣 The flare did not come from AR3738, as we might have expected. However, the region remains the disk's largest and most magnetically complex region. 😮 🤩 Most activity focuses on t

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Sun activity for October 7, 2023: 🌞new region on northeast limb introduced with an eruptive flare & coronal sends it’s solar wind heading toward Earth. 😱Meanwhile a filament covers the solar disk. Will it erupt?🧐 😎 MORE: bit.ly/sunactivity #sunactivity #spaceweather | The Sun Today: Solar Facts and Space Weather

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Sun activity for Oct 20, 2023🌞🧐The sun never seems to stop providing something exciting even with low-flare activity. A big filament erupted in the southeast on Oct 19, 2023🤩👏It occurred within the active region AR34568 at around 17:48 UTC. 🤔MORE at bit.ly/sunactivity | The Sun Today: Solar Facts and Space Weather

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🌞 Sun activity for November 21, 2023: It’s a potpourri of sunspots 😱 🥳 Today’s top news: Yesterday started with three active regions (sunspot groups), then bang, there were nine. Wow, that is crazy. 😎 This partially came about because new regions emerged on the disk. The most notable part of this sudden explosion of spots came from AR3490, which rotated further into view as well as growing into multiple separate groups of sunspots. 😵‍💫 It must have been a bit challenging for the space weat

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🌞 Sun activity for November 19, 2023, is moderate. Fun filaments and CMEs galore 🤩 👏 Today’s top news: It’s a day of flying filaments. Looking along the limb (edge) of the sun, we see numerous eruptions, small and large, front- and back-sided. It makes for quite a show. 😎 With the SOHO C2 and C3 coronagraphs, we can follow the eruptions further into space. These red, fire-like structures change into coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which are wispy clouds of solar particles and magnetic fields.

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🌞 🤩 Sun activity for October 18, 2023: We saw some double-prominence action today. 😎 A large filament lifted off from the eastern limb (edge), giving us a great prominence and leaving the sun into space. 🤔 At approximately the same time, a much smaller, dynamic prominence danced on the western limb (edge), though this structure stayed tied to the sun. The prominence on the east limb (edge) rose to more than 350,000 km before lifting off. 😱 The western limb (edge) prominence stood around 90,

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🌞 📰 Sun news for May 18, 2024: Eruptions, Jupiter, and auroras 🤩 👏 Flaring has picked up to moderate levels thanks to an M7.2 flare from AR3685, the presumed creator of the X3.0 flare off the eastern limb a few days ago. The sun is covered with 11 sunspot regions, but only AR3685 has produced an event above a C flare. The region’s magnetic complexity is not up to X potential, but its beta-gamma configuration gives the possibility of more M-class activity. 🤔 In addition to the M flare, there

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🌬️✨ Heads up, sky watchers! Most of the action might be lighting up Earth’s skies over the next two nights! Fast solar wind 🌪️ is set to trigger dazzling geomagnetic activity—aurora hunters, stay alert! 🌌💚 But our amazing Sun ☀️ is still putting on a stunning, subtle show. Check out this gorgeous filament eruption, gracefully ripping away over the east limb, captured here in extreme ultraviolet light! 🤩🔥 👉 https://bit.ly/sunactivity #SolarActivity #AuroraAlert #SpaceWeather #SunScience |

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