Solar Activity Heats Up
The Sun appears to be in an unsettled state. Minor short-lived sunspot groups are appearing at various locations on the Sun's disk and small flares are erupting in many of the active regions. This morning two intense solar flares erupted from sunspot group #8882. Impressive coronal mass ejections followed both flares. Geomagnetic activity could begin in 24 to 48 hours.
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SpaceWeather.comSPACE WEATHER NEWS from the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center: Last week an interplanetary wind storm hit our planet with a gale of energetic particles from the Sun. During the storm, a strong gust of solar wind triggered aurora captured by the Ultraviolet Imager on NASA's Polar satellite.
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NASA satellite spots an aurora from space ###
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