Space Weather Live (Page 8)

Summer is upon us in the northern hemisphere and that means very little aurora sightings. The fact that we are in a very quiet space weather period doesn’t help either of course but after a long and cold winter these warm rays of sunshine are very much welcome. Right? Or are you starting to experience aurora withdrawal symptoms? Either way, something has been drawing our attention today and that is the Sun’s X-ray output as measured by GOES-15. Indeed: we are talking about solar flares. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

A lot of aurora enthusiasts have put 17 May in their agenda as a possible date for some enhanced geomagnetic activity and thus auroral displays. Why? Because that is the date that a coronal hole solar wind stream is expected to arrive at Earth from a coronal hole that managed to give us moderate G2 geomagnetic storm conditions back in April.   Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

The anticipated coronal hole solar wind stream has arrived at our planet and packed quite a punch. Active geomagnetic conditions (Kp4) were expected but the solar wind conditions were so impressive it was enough for us to reach the moderate G2 geomagnetic storm threshold which equals a Kp of 6 and some impressive auroral displays around the globe. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

After literally months of planning, brain storming, coding, translating and fighting over the tiniest details, we are very proud to present to you a brand new front page for SpaceWeatherLive.com and our Dutch website Poollicht.be! Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

There has been a lot of crazy news going around about a possible severe geomagnetic storm today and tomorrow which could knock out satellites, cause problems with your health and damage power grids and other total made up nonsense like equinox cracks in the Sun. Fake news if you’d like. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

The coronal mass ejection that we discussed back on Wednesday arrived yesterday evening at Earth. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

There has been a little bit of a hype on social media about a possible earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) coming our way. The plasma cloud isn’t a myth and comes from a strange eruption late on 5 March but it was hardly noticeable on SDO. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Just a mere week after we introduced the Italian version of SpaceWeatherLive we are super proud to announce our tenth language! After English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Russian and Swedish we are very happy to be able to introduce to you SpaceWeatherLive in the Estonian language! Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

It has been hardly one and a half month since we added the Russian language to SpaceWeatherLive but we are super proud that we once again are able to present SpaceWeatherLive to you in a new language! Our website is now available in Italiano! Yes, in Italian! This is the 9th language already that we can offer to our visitors. The other eight languages that we have for you are English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Swedish! Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

The anticipated coronal mass ejection from the C1.5 solar flare back on Monday has arrived at Earth. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Sunspot region 2699 has been transiting the earth-facing solar disk the past few days but was relatively quiet. However, today just past midnight, this sunspot region started to erupt with a long duration C-class solar flare. The solar flare started at 00:15 UTC and peaked at 01:35 UTC with a maximum measured X-ray flux of C1.5. Not a mighty impressive value but the long duration gave away that this event might have been eruptive… Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

SpaceWeatherLive is proud to present a brand new version of the website! For the last few months we’ve been very hard at work behind the scenes rewriting (literally) all of the pages to improve the whole website in many ways. Together with all the improvements in speed, code and a bunch of other stuff we also introduced a modernised look and feel for the whole site. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

A shock in the solar wind arrived this morning around 6:00 UTC. While not very strong (solar wind speed at impact 350km/s) it is hard to pinpoint the source of this shock wave. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Happy new year everyone! Congratulations on surviving yet another trip around our Sun! Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Exciting news just before we say goodbye to 2017 and welcome 2018: our website is now available in Pусский! Yes, in Russian! This is the eight language already that we can offer to our visitors. The other seven languages that we have for you are English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Polish and Swedish! Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

We are currently under the influence of a coronal hole solar wind stream. The solar wind speed has picked up to 550km/s but there hasn’t really been much of a geomagnetic response as the solar wind density and interplanetary magnetic field values have been rather mediocre. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Today we have yet another southward extension of the northern hemisphere polar coronal hole facing our planet. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

A northern hemisphere coronal hole is facing our planet today. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

We’ve been a bit more quiet than you’re used to from us during the past few weeks but our team is once more at full capacity ready to bring you the latest space weather updates. Without any further ado, let’s get started! Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

A small coronal hole faced Earth yesterday. Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →