Do you remember the auroras back in May? 🌞 #shorts
In the weekend of 10–12 May 2024, the biggest solar storm to hit Earth in over 20 years swept over our planet. This produced an intense geomagnetic storm, creating beautiful auroras.
The culprit? An active sunspot region called AR3664. As it rotated away from Earth’s view around 14 May, it sent out the strongest flare yet (class X8.79), causing large radio blackouts on Earth. But the fact that we could not see it anymore from Earth did not mean that this monster had gone to sleep.
Watching the Sun’s far side on 20 May, Solar Orbiter’s X-ray instrument STIX observed a massive flare with an estimated class of X12. This makes it the strongest flare yet of the current solar cycle, and in the top ten flares since 1996.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
📸 ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI
#ESA #Aurora #SpaceWeather
❤ beautiful
It’s so interesting knowing how delicate our home planet really is.
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every 60 days right?
The Sun being at a peak over the 12 year cycle, we did get higher than usual temperature over 2-3 days.
This girl is so fine
I like your commentary natascia.tom
Important work! Keep it up!
Good Luck with the mission ESA! Greetings from Italia 🇮🇹
Can't wait for the next giant solar flare!!!
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You're so cute that first time I didn't even focus on the topic for the first time.
I just had to giggle over the the text overlay on AR3664 being essential Active region active region 3664 haha
I was wondering when we could get access to SO AIA 171 (or 174 in the case of SO), 094 and 193 or other EUV channels. Hopefully we can get that soon, it would make quite a few of us very, very happy to keep track of the farside! 🙂