24 June 2024

Solar & Space Check-In

Space Observing System

We started to get a massive surge in SR activity, the recording blacked out (overload/malfunction/whatever) and resumed after about 8 hours.

Solar flare-wise, we had an M-9.2 yesterday

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun Russia
 

And here's an update from SpaceWeather, reporting on our very active Sun:

MARTIAN AURORA WARNING: A CME is heading for Mars. According to a NASA model, the storm cloud will strike the Red Planet on June 27th. The impact could spark global auroras and erode a small amount of the planet's atmosphere. Aurora alerts: SMS Text

SOMETHING FLARE-Y THIS WAY COMES: Old sunspot AR3664 might not be dead, after all. It's returning today for a rare third trip across the Earthside of the sun. Usually such a superannuated sunspot would be a decaying corpse. Instead, we're getting an explosive active region:

An M9.3-class solar flare on June 23, 2024, with the underlying sunspot inset

 

Namarie! 💟


That "Break" & Blackout....

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia Just a quick check-in. I wasn't expecting to post anything for while but something that...