Your daily dose of our amazing #sun. Real-time images & data. Space weather, auroras, solar flares, coronal mass ejections & more! (NASA/SDO/SOHO/IRIS/STEREO)
Next week is @SunViewer 's 5 year anniversary! As you might know, this twitter account is not regularly updating anymore due to my, the founder's, busy Master Study.
However, I would love to involve contributors into this twitter account! If you have any ideas, let me know!
A bright Kreutz sungrazing comet is approaching the Sun. The comet made me think of C/2011 N3 that visible in EUV SDO images ~ 2011 July 5-6. It may peak around the same level of brightness or a little brighter? I expect the comet to enter C2 ~ 2 UT of July 13, perihelion ~8 UT
This X2.2-flare is from region 2992, which is occulted right now as it disappears off the #Sun's west limb. Likely, the actual flare was even larger than an X2! If this keeps up, we might see some amazing #solarstorms launched on the farside of the #Sun in coronagraphs this week!
The Sun sends salutations ๐
On Saturday, April 16, the Sun emitted a powerful burst of energy, an X-1 solar flare. Flares and solar eruptions can sometimes impact radio communications, electric power grids, and navigation signals: https://t.co/Bm6VNwJW3Q
Weโve touched the Sun! โ๏ธ
Announced today at #AGU21, NASAโs Parker Solar Probe has officially become the first spacecraft to fly through the Sunโs outer atmosphere, or corona.
Learn more: https://t.co/PuvczKHVxI
I'd use the term "survive" kinda loosely here... ๐ I think "dragged its rapidly decaying body through perihelion and limped off to die in a dark and lonely cave" is a better description of events... ๐ฌ but it sure was an amazing event to witness! โ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ชฆ
https://t.co/2ElaJqV2Er