Sun news July 31: Two eruptions launch sun-stuff into space| EarthSky
Sun news June 30: A blast of sun-stuff is on its way to Earth| EarthSky
Geomagnetic activity: The geomagnetic field was quiet to active (Kp = 1 to 4).| EarthSky
Sun news February 28. Just arrived! Photos of last night’s dancing aurora | EarthSky
Sun news for January 31 – February 1 (11 UTC to 11 UTC)| EarthSky
Sun news for December 27-28, 2024. An artist’s impression of Parker Solar Probe making its closest-yet approach to the sun on December 24, 2024. Yesterday, mission control confirmed that this approach was successful. Images via NASA/SVS.| EarthSky
Artist’s concept shows NASA’s Parker Solar Probe touching the sun. Parker Solar Probe was closest to the sun at 11:53:48 UTC (5:53:48 a.m. CST) December 24, 2024. It came within 3.86 million miles (6.2 million km) of our star. That was an exciting day for humanity! Image via NASA.The 2025 EarthSky Lunar Calendar is now available! A unique and beautiful poster-sized calendar. Makes a great New Year’s gift. Get yours today!| EarthSky
Sun news October 31: Fiery action around the solar horizon| EarthSky
Sun news September 30: Happy perihelion, Parker Solar Probe!| EarthSky
Our active sun continues to disturb Earth’s geomagnetic field. At the time of this writing a G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm is ongoing. The threshold was reached at 9:15 UTC. We saw activity the whole time during our observation period between 11 UTC yesterday and 11 UTC today. Late yesterday and early today we saw another G1 disturbance, during the 0-3 UTC period. People have reported auroral displays in Europe, Canada and the U.S. The G1 storming occurred during the dark hours in the U.S. ...| EarthSky
Sun activity is high this week, so far. There were 7 M flares in the past day. And check out the newcomer on the sun’s eastern, or incoming, side. Remember sunspot region AR3738? It produced an X flare and numerous M and C flares during its trip across the Earth-facing sun from July 5 to 17. Then the sun’s rotation carried it to the far side, where it produced an X14 flare! The flare – and its effects – were observed thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which can see the sun’s fa...| EarthSky
Sun news June 30, 2024: Parker Solar Probe nearly touches sun today| EarthSky
When the 2 large asteroids passed Earth in late June, 1 was hiding a secret. NASA images revealed that asteroid 2011 UL21 (top circle) has a tiny moon (bottom circle) as a companion. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.NASA images the 2 large asteroids that passed Earth| EarthSky
Venus started passing behind the sun yesterday, June 3. SOHO’s LASCO C2 captured Venus about to pass behind the sun (or, in this case, behind the spacecraft imagery equipment’s sun-occulter). The occultation of Venus behind the sun – the “anti-transit” – started around 14 UTC (9 a.m. central) on June 3 as seen by SOHO’s LASCO 2 imager. Venus takes many hours to go to its deepest point behind the sun. It’ll be most deeply behind the sun today, June 4. Meanwhile, the Venus super...| EarthSky
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft – which had been docked at the International Space Station all summer, after leaving 2 astronauts stranded there – returned uncrewed to Earth last night. NASA reported its landing at 10:01 p.m. MDT on September 6 (4:01 UTC on September 7), at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Meanwhile, the astronauts are still at the ISS … waiting to come home. Image via NASA.| EarthSky
Sun news February 29, 2024: Sun-stuff coming our way| EarthSky
Sun news for March 30, 2024: Parker Solar Probe’s close approach to the sun| EarthSky
This month’s full moon – called the Flower Moon – will crest at 11:56 a.m. CDT for us in the Americas on May 12. The moon will be below the horizon then for us … but that timing means the moon will look round and full to us on both May 11 and May 12. What else is special about this full moon? What’s the best way to watch a full moon, and what can you expect to see? Join EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd at 12:15 p.m. CDT (17:15 UTC) to boost your moon-watching mojo!| EarthSky