Jacques van Oene
July 14th 05, 07:50 PM
Space Weather News for July 14, 2005
http://spaceweather.com
Solar activity has suddenly increased with a series of strong explosions
from sunspot 786, including an X-category flare this morning. Because the
sunspot is near the sun's western limb, none of the blasts was squarely
Earth-directed. Nevertheless, coronal mass ejections hurled into space by
these explosions could deliver glancing blows to Earth's magnetic field as
early as tonight (July 14-15) and continuing through the weekend, possibly
sparking geomagnetic storms and auroras. Check spaceweather.com for movies
of the explosions, more information and updates.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info
http://spaceweather.com
Solar activity has suddenly increased with a series of strong explosions
from sunspot 786, including an X-category flare this morning. Because the
sunspot is near the sun's western limb, none of the blasts was squarely
Earth-directed. Nevertheless, coronal mass ejections hurled into space by
these explosions could deliver glancing blows to Earth's magnetic field as
early as tonight (July 14-15) and continuing through the weekend, possibly
sparking geomagnetic storms and auroras. Check spaceweather.com for movies
of the explosions, more information and updates.
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Jacques :-)
www.spacepatches.info