Thursday, October 14, 2010

Solar Wind Stream Heading Our Way And New Sunspot 1113

Solar Wind Stream Heading Our Way And New Sunspot 1113: "A solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole could reach Earth on or about Oct. 20th.

New sunspot 1113 emerged over the sun's northeastern limb yesterday and immediately announced itself with a towering eruption. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the blast on Oct. 13th around 1600 UT:

Magnetic fields reconnecting above the sunspot produced a B4-class solar flare and hurled a narrow coronal mass ejection into space: SOHO movie. Earth was not in the line of fire--but this could change in the days ahead as the sunspot turns to face our planet. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments."

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