It’s #SunDay! Here’s your space weather report for the week of June 5 - 11:
• 1 M-class flare
• 5 C-class flares
• 36 coronal mass ejections
• 1 geomagnetic storm (as of June 12, though another one is currently forecast for June 13)
This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the week’s activity.
This week’s most powerful flare was an M1.8 on June 6, which erupts from the southeastern (lower left) region of the Sun’s disk at about 0:42 in this video. That eruption also produced a coronal mass ejection that reached Earth three days later, but the bulk of the blast was oriented to the south and east of Earth, so the effect on our planet was minimal.
Learn more about solar flares and coronal mass ejections: https://t.co/GRxOaTcMdD