ANOTHER ERUPTION: For the past few days, magnetic filaments have been rising and snapping all around the sun. The latest eruption occured during the late hours of April 7th, shown here in an extreme UV video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
A CME hurled into space by this eruption might deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on or about April 9th. Like a CME observed two days ago, this one was visually confused by two other clouds leaving the sun from other blast sites at about the same time: movie. Stay tuned for updated analyses.
Solar wind
speed: 357.0 km/sec
density: 0.9 protons/cm3
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Updated: Today at 1727 UT
X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max: B7 1547 UT Apr08
24-hr: B7 1547 UT Apr08
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Updated: Today at: 1700 UT
Daily Sun: 08 Apr 12
Sunspot 1450 has developed a beta-gamma magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. Credit: SDO/HMI
