And There's More!

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An X1.8-flare! I'm feeling like a Solar correspondent this month 😅 on a civilian-status amateur-level, of course.

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

Compared to that massive X9.1 we had on 3 October, this one isn't all that intense. However, what "amplifies" this is that the flare sustained an explosion that lasted more than 4 hours, ensuring a CME of behemoth proportions (I'm running out of words to describe "massive"), pictured below:

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Thanks again to SpaceWeather for details.

 

Here's the Solar Wind prediction....

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....with our Planet directly in the path ~ and Mars, too.

 

Namarie! 💚