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Earth’s Ring Current System Just Sprang a Leak
Nov. 6, 2023: (Spaceweather.com) During this past weekend’s strong G3-class geomagnetic storm, low-latitude auroras spread as far south as Texas and Arizona. Upon further review, most of those lights...
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What are the Mysterious ‘Bright Nights’?
Nov. 14, 2023: (Spaceweather.com): A phenomenon rarely seen in centuries might have just appeared in the night sky over Colorado–a “Bright Night.” Philosophers and scientists have reported Bright...
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‘SpaceX Auroras’
Nov. 20, 2023: There’s a new phenomenon in the night sky: “SpaceX auroras.” They’re red, roughly spherical, and brightly visible to the naked eye for as much as 10 minutes at a time. “We are seeing 2...
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An Extremely Rare Occultation of Betelgeuse
Dec. 10, 2023: (Spaceweather.com) For years, astronomers have worried that Betelgeuse might explode. Instead, it’s about to disappear. On Dec. 11th (USA) and 12th (Europe), main belt asteroid Leona...
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The Geminids are Still a Mystery
Dec. 13, 2023: (Spaceweather.com): Every great mystery novel has an unexpected twist. Apparently the same is true of meteor showers. A paper published in the Planetary Science Journal reports a...
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An Outbreak of Polar Stratospheric Clouds
Dec. 17, 2023: (Spaceweather.com) A cold wave just swept through the Arctic stratosphere. Really cold. We know because on Dec. 17th these colorful clouds appeared over Sweden: Above: A “PSC selfie” by...
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Record-Cold Weather in the Stratosphere
Dec. 24, 2023: (Spaceweather.com) Now we know why polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) have suddenly exploded. According to NASA’s MERRA-2 climate model, temperatures in the Arctic stratosphere just hit...
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The Polar Vortex Wobbled in December
Jan. 9, 2024: (Spaceweather.com) Last month, sky watchers in Europe saw something rare and beautiful. A giant bank of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) escaped the Arctic Circle, and for more than a...
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Solar Protons Are Raining Down on Earth
Jan. 29, 2024: Energetic protons from the sun are striking the top of Earth’s atmosphere today following a strong solar flare during the early hours of Jan. 29th. This is called a “radiation storm,”...
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Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
Feb. 1, 2024: Something unprecedented is happening in Earth orbit. In only a few short years, the satellite population has skyrocketed, more than doubling since 2020. In the past year alone, more...
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A Sympathetic X-class Solar Flare
March 24, 2024: Yesterday, the sun produced a solar flare so strong, it took two sunspots to make it. Sunspots AR3614 and AR3615 exploded in tandem on March 23rd (0130 UT), directing their fire...
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This Comet Did Not Survive the Eclipse
April 10, 2024: (Spaceweather.com) Astronomer Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab predicted that a sungrazing comet might be visible during Monday’s total eclipse. He was right. Chinese amateur...
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Global Auroras on Mars
Feb 28, 2024: Earth isn’t the only planet with auroras. Mars has them, too–on a global scale.“Mars is experiencing its greatest level of auroral activity in the past 10 years,” says Nick Schneider of...
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South Pacific Auroras Confirm May 10th Was a Great Storm
May 16, 2024: On the south Pacific island of New Caledonia, no one expects to see auroras. Ever. Situated about halfway between Tonga and Australia, the cigar-shaped island is too close to the equator...
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Rocks and Soil Electrified by the May 10th Superstorm
May 23, 2024: (Spaceweather.com) Across the USA on May 10th and 11th, sky watchers marveled at bright displays of aurora borealis during the biggest geomagnetic storm in decades. Little did they know,...
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A Red Blob in the Night Sky
April 10, 2024: This is starting to happen a lot in the state of Texas. On April 10th, around 2:14 in the morning, amateur astronomer Abdur Anwar looked up from Big Bend National Park and saw a...
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A Nova Will Explode This Summer (Probably)
June 7, 2024: The night sky is about to get a new star. Sometime this summer, astronomers believe, a nova will explode in the constellation Corona Borealis (the Northern Crown). The exploding star...
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Nova T CrB is About to Explode
June 28, 2024: (Spaceweather.com) By the time you finish reading this story, there could be a new star in the night sky. Recurrent nova T CrB (pronounced “tee-core-bore”) is poised on the knife edge...
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The “Inevitable” Fragmentation of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
July 12, 2024: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) is about to fall apart. It’s “inevitable,” according to a new study by astronomer Zdenek Sekanina. “Evidence suggests that the comet has entered an...
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Major Farside Solar Flare
July 25, 2024: The biggest flare of Solar Cycle 25 just exploded from the farside of the sun. X-ray detectors on Europe’s Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft registered an X14 category blast: Solar...
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