Coronagraph imagery from SOHO/LASCO is now complete and shows that the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that was launched during the M4.5 solar flare from this past night has an earth-directed component.
It took a little while but the sunspot group that we told you to watch out for yesterday has woken up! Sunspot region 2158 was the source of a long duration M4.5 (R1-moderate) solar flare that peaked today at 00:29 UTC.
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Last X-flare | 2024/12/08 | X2.2 |
Last M-flare | 2024/12/23 | M8.9 |
Last geomagnetic storm | 2024/12/17 | Kp5+ (G1) |
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November 2024 | 152.5 -13.9 |
December 2024 | 106.6 -45.9 |
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