spaceweather.com - Sun Apr 3, 2022
A 'CANYON OF FIRE' JUST OPENED ON THE SUN: A dark filament of magnetism just whipsawed out of the sun's atmosphere, carving a gigantic canyon of fire. The walls of the canyon are at least 20,000 km high and 10 times as long. Fragments of the magnetic filament may soon emerge from the blast site in the form of an Earth-directed CME. Stay tuned and, meanwhile, watch the movie. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
LONG DURATION SOLAR FLARE AND CME: Yesterday, April 2nd, departing sunspot AR2975 exploded, producing a long-duration M4-class solar flare. Although the sunspot was not directly facing Earth, it might have hurled some debris in our direction:
This SOHO coronagraph movie shows an asymmetric full-halo CME emerging from the blast site. The bulk of the CME will miss, but perhaps not all. A fraction of the storm cloud appears to be heading for Earth and could strike our planet's magnetic field on April 5th or 6th. A glancing blow could spark a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm.
See all the snow at the beginning of the coronagraph movie? That is a storm of energetic protons striking SOHO's digital camera. The protons were accelerated toward Earth by shockwaves at the leading edge of the CME. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
A 'CANYON OF FIRE' JUST OPENED ON THE SUN: A dark filament of magnetism just whipsawed out of the sun's atmosphere, carving a gigantic canyon of fire. The walls of the canyon are at least 20,000 km high and 10 times as long. Fragments of the magnetic filament may soon emerge from the blast site in the form of an Earth-directed CME. Stay tuned and, meanwhile, watch the movie. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
LONG DURATION SOLAR FLARE AND CME: Yesterday, April 2nd, departing sunspot AR2975 exploded, producing a long-duration M4-class solar flare. Although the sunspot was not directly facing Earth, it might have hurled some debris in our direction:
This SOHO coronagraph movie shows an asymmetric full-halo CME emerging from the blast site. The bulk of the CME will miss, but perhaps not all. A fraction of the storm cloud appears to be heading for Earth and could strike our planet's magnetic field on April 5th or 6th. A glancing blow could spark a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm.
See all the snow at the beginning of the coronagraph movie? That is a storm of energetic protons striking SOHO's digital camera. The protons were accelerated toward Earth by shockwaves at the leading edge of the CME. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text