Pilots flying commercial jets over the North Atlantic got an eyeful as well. Thomas McCarty saw the display from Fairbanks, Alaska: 'It was the first good show I have seen this season,' he says. Soon after that, almost the entire north half of the sky exploded with colourful auroras.'

'I travelled ~20km away from the city lights, stopped and waited with my camera ready to go. 'I drove out as soon as I noticed the arrival of the glancing CME,' reports photographer Gunjan Sinha of Saskatoon, SK, Canada. The weak impact did not cause a geomagnetic storm, but it did shake things up enough to spark auroras around the Arctic Circle: Stay tuned.ĬME IMPACT SPARKS AURORAS, BUT NO STORM: As predicted, a CME grazed Earth's magnetic field during the early hours of Aug. If so, there is a good chance it will be Earth-directed. We expect a CME to emerge from the explosion. The walls of the canyon are 20,000 km high and 5 times as long-a chasm big enough to swallow Earth with ease. Debris cut through the sun's atmosphere, forming a 'canyon of fire.' 29 1400 UT), a magnetic filament near sunspot AR3089 became unstable and erupted. 2nd.Ī 'CANYON OF FIRE' JUST OPENED ON THE SUN: Earlier today (Aug.

NASA hopes to figure out what went wrong in time for the next launch window, which opens on Sept. One of the hydrogen lines did not fully open.

Neutron counts from the University of Oulu's Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory show that cosmic rays reaching Earth are slowly declining-a result of the yin-yang relationship between the solar cycle and cosmic rays.ĪRTEMIS I LAUNCH SCRUBBED: Today's launch of Artemis I has been scrubbed due to an issue with one of the engines: In the last seconds of the launch countdown, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen were diverted to flow around the four engines, cooling them in preparation for ignition. Credit: SDO/HMIĬosmic Rays Solar Cycle 25 is beginning, and this is reflected in the number of cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere. Sunspot AR3089 is developing a 'delta-class' magnetic field that poses a threat for strong Earth-directed solar flares.

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