Three More!

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

We've had another trio of X-class flares in the past 48 hours, with a brief period of geomagnetic activity just now:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

 

So that's a trio of X-flares closing out 2024, and another trio of X-flares in the first week of 2025.

And look at our Sun, all lit up:

Gregorio M Vigilante del Sol

Meanwhile, here's what's happening with the SR:

Disclosure News Italia

Namarie! 💗

Setting The Stage!

Vincent Ledvina - 'The Aurora Guy'

WOW....What a spectacular display of Aurora Borealis to start off 2025! 

Alaska's News Source

SpaceWeather

The frequencies were coming in strong and stayed long:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

These two CMEs being the cause for the excitement and celebration:

SpaceWeather

 

I'd like to think of these frequencies as literally lighting up our Planet's core energetics and infusing the entire world. Perhaps the start of helping to transmute the Black River?

Very nice indeed 💝 

Namarie! 💜

Three X-Flares

SpaceWeather

Solar siesta ended on 29 December with an X1.1, followed by a double X-flare the next day (X1.1 & X1.5).

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

The double X-flares are the ones shown in the gif above, and this is what SpaceWeather says:

This morning's X1.5-class eruption (0414 UTC) was so strong it triggered a secondary blast in sunspot 3932 more than 200,000 km away.

All three X-flares occurred within a 24-hour period:

X1.1 on 29th @07:08:00 UTC

X1.5 on 30th @04:01:00 UTC

X1.1 on 30th @04:29:00 UTC.

Namarie! 💟

Farside Solar Activity

SpaceWeather

The "other" side of our Solar System has been getting much Solar love and attention. Our Sun spewed out a series of CMEs, one of which was this colossal energy mass as shown above, which occurred on 17 December. SpaceWeather has some details.

Since they were on the farside, geomagnetic storms weren't really expected. However, it would seem that the CMEs did their best in extending their reach so as not to leave out our Planet, and we did get some spotty geomagnetic activity, with one short burst of storming.

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

Apart from this, it's been pretty quiet this side of our Sun.

Namarie! 🤍

"Impulsive" X2.2

The Sun Today

It was a quiet two weeks on the Solar-front, but around 5 December 2024 we started to see some small sizzles registering on the chart, growing more active until the X2.2 on 8 December 2024.

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

SpaceWeather called the burst "impulsive" (read here).

The ensuing CME isn't Earth-facing:

SpaceWeatherLive

  ....but it does look like Mercury and Mars are both in the line of Cosmic Fire:

SpaceWeatherLive

 

As for the SR.... 😅

Space Observing System & Disclosure News Italia

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Solar Radiation Storm & Avalanche Lights

SpaceWeather

SpaceWeather reported this interesting event on 25 November 2024:

MYSTERIOUS BLUE AVALANCHE LIGHTS IN CHINA: This might be something new. On the night of Oct. 27th, Chinese astrophotographer Shengyu Li set up his camera to record star trails over Mount Xiannairi in Sichuan, China. The long exposure had just begun when an icy serac broke free from a hanging glacier. Note the blue flashes within the ensuing avalanche.

It's known as "triboluminescence" ~ today (27th) SpaceWeather has more information about the phenomenon, please read about it here.

On 22 November 2024, we had a moderate (S2) to minor (S2) Solar Radiation storm:

SpaceWeather

SpaceWeather reports:

SOLAR RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS: Today, Earth and all of our planet's satellites are being hit by a blizzard of energetic protons. It's an S1-class solar radiation storm (subsiding from a peak of S2) . You can see the particles in this coronagraph movie from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):

Please read the article here.

X2.3 On 6 November 2024

The Sun Today

The above is a gif I created from the video posted on The Sun Today. Please head over there to see this X2.3 plus M1-flare in beautiful detail, it truly is gorgeous!

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

 There were altogether 21 flares detected on the same day:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

The duration of some of these flares are amazing!

Namarie! 💜

An X2.03 Closes Off October

SpaceWeather

Unsurprisingly, October bookended its potent run with X-class flares. An X2.03 burst onto the scene on the last day of the month but no CME is expected:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

At this time of writing, it's still pre-noon UTC 1 November ~ let's see if there's any high Solar activity to greet this month.

October was certainly....interesting.

Namarie! 🩵

About Another X-Class Flare & Two Comets....

SpaceWeather

This X1.8 flared hot on the heels of an M9.5 on 26 October 2024. 

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

 

Look at that humongous CME that followed:

SpaceWeather

It's largely not facing Earth ~ seems like Venus is getting the attention for this one. 

SpaceWeather

Let's turn to the Comets now ~ first up, the one dubbed "Comet of the Century" Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Space.com shows its dazzling tail as it passes our Sun:

Space.com

I'll show another still of this event towards the end of this post. There's also a video clip of this comet as it makes its way across the sky (here).

Next we have this Sungrazer (C/2024 S1) approaching our Sun (lower right):

SpaceWeather

I'll be checking for updated footage in the following days as it flies into our Sun.

For the final resource, here's a video by MrMB333. Apart from the gorgeous Aurora Borealis performance, the video also features Comet A3 as it passes our Sun (around 2:18-minute mark), right as the CME was firing off (I'll refer to this in a later post):

MrMBB333

The video's main feature of the "rings" in the sky is also fascinating (4:50-minute mark).

So much happening....

Namarie! 💚

Recess Over

SpaceWeather

After an explosive fortnight of Solar activity in October (and a relatively active year so far), our Sun took the opportunity to rest a bit. From SpaceWeather:

THE SUN IS TAKING A QUICK BREAK: Solar Max is hard work. Just ask the sun. After flaring almost without pause for the past 10 months, the sun is taking a quick break. Solar activity has been low for the past 48 hours with no flares stronger than category C. The quiet won't last. Solar Max is expected to continue for at least another year; flaring should resume shortly. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text

Well, our Sun is at it again, this time with a sudden flare that maxed at X3.33 (!) and lasted for more than an hour:

SpaceWeatherLive

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

 

There's the related CME spewing out:

Gregorio M Vigilante del Sol

 

While our Sun went quiet for a few days, we could feel that something was brewing (OK apart from everything that's brewing these days!) ~ yesterday was particularly tough with nausea, strange sensations in the Solar Plexus area, dull headache, and generally extreme tiredness. Something was definitely building up. Then this happened, and thankfully it's so much better now apart from the itching skin.

And oh, I just saw this:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

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Incoming....

SpaceWeather: Taken by Richard Bell on October 10, 2024 @ Richland, MI 

 

Strong Solar storms were predicted to follow after that recent behemoth CME, and storm they did as they practically fired in at G3 and then G4 (K-index 8.67).

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

It's also Aurora Galore time! SpaceWeather has a gallery of these stunning displays.

Namarie! 💜

X1.4 This Time

SpaceWeather

A brief post to document the sixth X-flare for this month ~ an X1.4:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

 

The clip at the top shows the astounding masses of proton particles  that are literally swaddling our Planet (image below). SpaceWeather describes it as "....protons are raining down on Earth". (Also note Comet A3 Atlas making its approach around our Sun.)

SpaceWeatherLive

Strong Solar storms are expected in the coming days, and possibly another round of Aurora Borealis displays.

Namarie! 💗

And There's More!

SpaceWeather

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:

SpaceWeather

Thanks again to SpaceWeather for details.

 

Here's the Solar Wind prediction....

SpaceWeatherLive

SpaceWeatherLive

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

 

Namarie! 💚

More Flaring & Storming....& A Comet Calling

SpaceWeather

We had two X-class flares yesterday ~ X2.19 followed shortly by X1.02:

SpaceWeatherLive

The gif above is the X2.19, and here's an image of the X1.02:

The Sun Today

This resulted in a gargantuan CME.....

SpaceWeather

....which will hurl massive amounts of Cosmic Plasma at our Planet....and Comet A3 Atlas! That's its dazzling tail at the right side of the gif above as it makes its way towards our Sun. Please visit SpaceWeather for more details.

Back to that colossal CME....look at that wave! 

SpaceWeather

So that will be yet another display of Aurora Borealis to come. Thanks to SpaceWeather again, we can admire the current round of display here.

Solar storm-wise, this has been happening:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

This current storm phase took its time in arriving, and then seemed to pull back briefly before resurging again. It's been quite drawn-out though.....can I get some sleep, please? 😁

 

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) on September 30, 2024from Tivoli Astro-Farm, Namibia.

©Michael Jäger, Gerald Rhemann, Dennis Möller

Finally, more links for details about Comet A3 Atlas: 

https://starwalk.space/en/news/c2023-a3-tsuchinshan-atlas-next-comet-visible-from-earth-2024

https://theskylive.com/c2023a3-info

https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/destinations/north-america/tsuchinshan-atlas-comet/

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-2024

It looks like Comet A3 Atlas is expected to put on quite a show in our evening skies.

 

As exclaimed previously, it's all happening this month!

Namarie! 💙