11~24~11 Space Weather Update~ [1]

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:

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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.

Solar wind
speed: 407.7 km/sec
density: 2.1 protons/cm³
explanation [3] | more data [4]
Updated: Today at 1306 UT

X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max: B8 0810 UT Nov24
24-hr: B8 0810 UT Nov24
explanation [5] | more data [6]
Updated: Today at: 1300 UT

Daily Sun: 24 Nov 11

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Sunspot 1356 has a "beta-gamma" magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class [5] solar flares. Credit: SDO/HMI