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Rain/Thunder today!

By iftttauthorways4eu on Wed May 15 2024

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

The 37 Cluster

By iftttauthorways4eu on Tue May 14 2024

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 […]

By iftttauthorways4eu on Mon May 13 2024

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 […]

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sun May 12 2024

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 […]

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sat May 11 2024

Right now, one of the largest sunspot groups in recent history is crossing the Sun. Active Region 3664 is not only big — it’s violent, throwing off clouds of particles into the Solar System. Some of these CMEs are already impacting the Earth, and others might follow. At the extreme, these solar storms could cause […]

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