The Solar Cycle As Seen From Space

🌞 📰 Sun news for January 27, 2024: Sunspots and action on the far side 🤔 The action now is on the far side. We saw a couple of large prominences beyond the limb (edge) on the northwest and southeast. These may be associated with the active regions revealed indirectly via helioseismology and seen directly by the Mars Perseverance rover. 🫣 🤩 If they survive we will see them on the Earth-facing side of the sun in several days. After being covered with up to 13 numbered active regions on its Ea

🌞 📰 Sun news for January 23, 2024: What a day! Huge flare increase and multiple CMEs 😱 What a day of solar activity. You name it! During the past day we saw an increase in flaring number, flare size (an M5.1 flare), two expected coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and an anticipated geomagnetic storm with aurora. 7 🤔 🤩 AR3559 provided some of the increased activity as expected but the big surprise was AR3561 which produced 18 flares including seven M flares (in addition to the M5.1). After more t