QUIET THANKSGIVING: Despite a large number of sunspots on the Earthside of the sun, solar activity is very low today. Not one of the sunspots is actively flaring. The forecast calls for a quiet thanksgiving.
ERUPTION: The day before Thanksgiving, however, was not so quiet. On Nov. 23rd, a magnetic filament wrapping around the sun's NW limb rose up and erupted. Click on the arrow to play the movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
The eruption hurled a cloud of plasma (a "CME") into space but not toward Earth. Because of the blast site's high-northern location on the sun, the cloud flew up and out of the plane of the solar system; no planets will be affected.
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Solar wind
speed: 407.7 km/sec
density: 2.1 protons/cm3
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Updated: Today at 1306 UT
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X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max: B8 0810 UT Nov24
24-hr: B8 0810 UT Nov24
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Updated: Today at: 1300 UT
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Daily Sun: 24 Nov 11
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Sunspot 1356 has a "beta-gamma" magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. Credit: SDO/HMI
