PM Thunderstorms today! With a high of 17C and a low of 17C. 100 Humidity. 11 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

An illuminated waning gibbous moon contrasts the deep black of space as the International Space Station soared 270 miles over the Southern Ocean. via NASA https://ift.tt/SceZfDn

What did the monster active region that created the recent auroras look like when at the Sun’s edge? There, AR 3664 better showed its 3D structure. Pictured, a large multi-pronged solar prominence was captured extending from chaotic sunspot region AR 3664 out into space, just one example of the particle clouds ejected from this violent […]

Rain/Thunder today! With a high of 18C and a low of 18C. 92 Humidity. 13 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

For the mostly harmless denizens of planet Earth, the brighter stars of open cluster NGC 2169 seem to form a cosmic 37. Did you expect 42? From our perspective, the improbable numerical asterism appears solely by chance. It lies at an estimated distance of 3,300 light-years toward the constellation Orion. As far as galactic or […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 26C and a low of 26C. 90 Humidity. 12 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southeast.

The aurora turns the sky near Malad City, Utah, red, purple, and green in this 8-second exposure taken on May 11, 2024. via NASA https://ift.tt/NZWIfdH

It was larger than the Earth. It was so big you could actually see it on the Sun’s surface without magnification. It contained powerful and tangled magnetic fields as well as numerous dark sunspots. Labelled AR 3664, it developed into one of the most energetic areas seen on the Sun in recent years, unleashing a […]

Scattered Thunderstorms today! With a high of 21C and a low of 21C. 86 Humidity. 15 C currently. 5 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Northern lights don’t usually reach this far south. Magnetic chaos in the Sun’s huge Active Region 3664, however, produced a surface explosion that sent a burst of electrons, protons, and more massive, charged nuclei into the Solar System. A few days later, that coronal mass ejection (CME) impacted the Earth and triggered auroras that are […]