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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
More Solar stuff! First off, we're in the midst of a geomagnetic disturbance (above).
Solar flaring was pretty intense in the past few days, with an X-class flare registering on 14 December, followed by a couple of strong M-class flares the next day:
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| Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun |
The Sun Today has a video clip that shows the origin of these strong flares, please view it here. The X2.8 flare is reported to be the strongest since 2017.
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| Screenshot from The Sun Today |
The CME clocked a maximum speed of 1953 km/sec (7,030,800 km/hr):
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| SpaceWeatherLive |
Earlier, a kamikaze Kreutz comet disappeared into the Sun on 12 December:
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| Nasa |
The Sun Today has more details about this event ~ I can't help but infer that the X2.8 flare is connected with the comet's death dive.
Coming back to the present.... We're currently experiencing very strong geomagnetic pressure ~ click link below image for animation:
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| SpaceWeatherLive |
....and also very high density (click link for animation):
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| SpaceWeatherLive |
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