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Tag: Solar Flare

  • Space Weather Report for Pan-Africa – April 2024

    Space Weather Report for Pan-Africa – April 2024

    Increased Solar Activity and Lunar Phases Influence Earth’s Space Environment 1. Solar Flare & Geomagnetic Activity The Sun has entered a period of heightened activity, with multiple moderate (M-class) solar flares detected in the past week. The most significant eruption occurred on April 2, 2024, from sunspot region AR3663, releasing an M5.6 flare. This event…

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  • X-Class Flare Hurled a Significant CME into Space

    Active sunspot AR3842 erupted again on Oct. 7th (1913 UTC), producing an X2-class solar flare (movie). The explosion hurled a significant CME into space. SOHO coronagraph images show the CME and Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which is passing between Earth and the sun today. The CME is going to hit both the comet and Earth, in that…

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  • What’s Happening on the Farside of the Sun?

    A magnificent halo CME billowed away from the farside of the sun yesterday,the second time this week this has happened. A hidden sunspot group transiting the farside is crackling with activity. If it were facing Earth, we would now be bracing for geomagnetic storms. New Update:New data courtesy of the ESA Solar Orbiter shows that…

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