View at EarthSky Community Photos | Mario Rana in Hampton, Virginia, captured this filtered close-up of the sun (in hydrogen-alpha light) with sunspot region AR2975 and AR2976 on March 27, 2022.
I shot this at an ISO of 2000 at 12mm, F2.8 6 seconds.” Thank you, Joanne! I try to view them yearly, whether it is Iceland, Finland, Canada or Alaska. View community photos here More sun and space weather images from the EarthSky community View at EarthSky Community Photos | Joanne Richardson who was located outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, captured this bright aurora on March 27, 2022, and wrote “I love photographing the aurora. To those of you who’ve already posted a photo to our community, thank you! We invite you all to send us your beautiful recent photos of sunspots and auroras! We love receiving your photos. The images are from the NASA/SDO solar observatory.
This animation shows the rotation during a timespan of roughly a day, from March 23 – 24, 2022. Recent sun activity: the new active region (sunspot region) AR2975 is rotating onto the Earth-facing side of the sun’s disk. When the stream reaches us in another couple of days, scientists anticipate elevated geomagnetic activity. The central part of the sunspots is at least as large as two Earths! The region, labeled AR2975, had produced multiple C-class flares over several days.Ī large coronal hole near the sun’s center is now in range to send some activity toward Earth in the form of high-speed solar winds. March 25: A large and active sunspot group rotates into viewĪ new sunspot group, or active region, has rotated into view on the Earth-facing side of the sun. The eruption produced an EIT wave, minor radio blackout, and possibly an Earth-directed CME. Sun activity from March 25, 2022, from AR2974: an M-class solar flare. The explosion also sent a solar tsunami – officially called an EIT wave – rippling through the sun’s atmosphere. On Friday morning, March 25, 2022, sunspot AR2974 in the sun’s southern hemisphere produced an M-class flare. The upcoming CME is from a March 25 solar flare, which also caused a shortwave radio blackout over southeast Asia. Activity at Earth is expected to be minor.
NASA estimates the CME will impact Earth late on March 27, 2022, or early on March 28. Thank you, David!Ī CME from the sun is headed our way. A low level geomagnetic storm – with auroras at high latitudes – is possible. | David Hoskin in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, captured this filtered closeup of the sun (in hydrogen-alpha light) on March 26, 2022. Looking for the current page on sun activity? Click here.