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BIG SUNSPOT / AURORAS

We are in a low spot of the sunspot cycle, yet there is a giant spot on the sun right now, and a CME set off auroras seen all the way to northern states.

Almost 80 billion watts of power surged through Earth’s auroral oval during today’s geomagnetic storm. Not much for us to see, given a full moon and an overcast sky.    –CPL

 

BIG SUNSPOT ALERT: For most of 2018, the solar disk has been blank without a trace of even the smallest sunspot. This weekend something different is happening. A large sunspot has suddenly emerged, growing rapidly into a sprawling group with two dark cores as wide as Earth. Satellites are monitoring the region to see if it will break the quiet of solar minimum with a significant flare. Visit Spaceweather.com for more information and updates.

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Above: Sunspot group AR2720, photographed by Thierry Legault on Aug. 25th from the Saint-Véran/Astroqueyras observatory in the French Alps. An image of Earth has been inserted for scale.
 

Space Weather News for August 26, 2018
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https://www.facebook.com/spaceweatherdotcomSTRONG GEOMAGNETIC STORM: Surprising forecasters, a strong and unexpected G3-class geomagnetic storm is underway during the early hours of August 26th. The storm may have been caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME) that arrived with little fanfare about 24 hours ago. Auroras mixed with moonlight have been reported from Scandinavia, Canada, and northern-tier US states such as New York and Michigan. Visit Spaceweather.com for updates.

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Above: According to a NOAA computer model, almost 80 billion watts of power surged through Earth’s auroral oval during today’s geomagnetic storm.