New Solar Mission (IRIS) Rescheduled to Launch June 27
A Pegasus Rocket is set to drop from the Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft with NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. Launch is set for 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27…
Category Archives: Space Weather
River of Sun Spots Emerging as Sun Rotates
As you can see in this image there are a number of sun spots that are in close proximity creating what looks like a river of sunspots crossing almost one…
Great view of CME as it Erupts from edge of Sun May 1, 2013
On May 1, 2013 SDO captured this video of a coronal mass ejection (CME) as it erupted from the edge of the Sun. The actual time of the video…
Two Large CMEs headed for Mercury
On April 24-25 2013, two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupted from the sun. Moving at about 500 miles per second these solar phenomena, capable of ejecting billions of tons of…
Strong Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth 3/17/13
The last few days have seen many space weather warnings and alerts. The root of all of these was activity on the sun resulting in a strong a coronal mass…
GEOMAGNETIC STORM Predicted 3/17. Auroras as low as New York
Update – NOAA predicts 70 percent chance of GEOMAGNETIC STORM March 17th A CME that left the sun on March 15th is expected to ompact Earth’s magnetic field on March…
Space Weather WARNING 3-15-13 – CME
UPDATE – Issue Time: 2013 Mar 15 1712 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G2 Predicted Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day: Mar 16: G1 (Minor) Mar 17: G2 (Moderate) Mar…
Amazing Video Shows Plasma Rain on Sun
In this amazing video you can see what in effect is rain on the sun, but it is the plasma dropping from the magnetic fields. On July 19, 2012, an…
