A new gigantic sunspot, AR1785, was just discovered! A free webcast by the online skyWatching website Slooh Space Camera will show it to us today. The webcast will begin at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) on July 9, 2013 and will last about 25 minutes. Watch for the webcast at the window above at start time when you click on the video link below. "Slooh Space Camera will take viewers … [Read more...] about Gigantic New Sunspot 11 times the size of Earth Facing Our Planet
Coronal Holes
Coronal holes are areas in the sun's corona that cooler; therefore darker, and from where a large portion of high speed the solar wind comes from. Coronal holes were first discovered when X-ray space telescopes on board the Skylab were first flown above the earth's atmosphere. Coronal holes are also detected where open or uni-polar solar magnetic field lines are present or … [Read more...] about Coronal Holes
SDO Solar Images & Data Collection 2010-2013
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) 30 days videos, compare the sun's activity from periods of t 2.5 years, showing increased solar activity. Images shown were collected in 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. Areas of intense activity is shown as the brighter areas with electromagnetic field loops above those areas. This activity should increase … [Read more...] about SDO Solar Images & Data Collection 2010-2013
Solar Maxima 2013 – Double peaked?
A science team consensus at NASA has issued a contradicting news concerning earlier scientific reports which expected a violent Solar Maximum peak in 2013. Instead of a steady stream of violent solar flares and magnetic solar storms as they were predicting earlier, solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center now theorizes that the Sun may be having a … [Read more...] about Solar Maxima 2013 – Double peaked?
International Response to Space Weather Effects Being Organized by UN
The solar maximum of 2013-2024 has begun, and the United Nations has added space weather to the regular agenda of the COPUOS Science and Technical Sub-committee, to initiate steps to organize an international response to space weather effects, such as orbital debris and close-approaching asteroids. From now on, space weather will be regular topic of conversation among UN … [Read more...] about International Response to Space Weather Effects Being Organized by UN