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SPACE WEATHER
Current
Conditions

Solar Wind
speed: 460.8 km/s
density:
2.2 protons/cm3
explanation | more data
Updated: Today at 2246 UT

X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max:
A7 1815 UT Apr25
24-hr: B2 0545 UT Apr25
explanation | more data
Updated: Today at 2245 UT

Daily Sun: 25 Apr '07

A new sunspot is rotating into view over the sun's east limb. Credit: SOHO/MDI


Sunspot Number: 0
What is the sunspot number?
Updated: 24 Apr 2007

Far Side of the Sun

This holographic image reveals two sunspots on the far side of the sun. Image credit: SOHO/MDI

Interplanetary Mag. Field
Btotal: 4.1 nT
Bz:
0.8 nT south
explanation | more data
Updated: Today at 2246 UT

Coronal Holes:

A solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole should hit Earth on April 28th. Credit: SOHO Extreme UV telescope


SPACE WEATHER
NOAA
Forecasts

Solar Flares: Probabilities for a medium-sized (M-class) or a major (X-class) solar flare during the next 24/48 hours are tabulated below.
Updated at 2007 Apr 25 2203 UTC
FLARE 0-24 hr 24-48 hr
CLASS M 05 % 10 %
CLASS X 01 % 01 %

Geomagnetic Storms: Probabilities for significant disturbances in Earth's magnetic field are given for three activity levels: active, minor storm, severe storm
Updated at 2007 Apr 25 2203 UTC
Mid-latitudes
0-24 hr 24-48 hr
ACTIVE 10 % 10 %
MINOR 01 % 01 %
SEVERE 01 % 01 %

High latitudes
0-24 hr 24-48 hr
ACTIVE 10 % 10 %
MINOR 05 % 05 %
SEVERE 01 % 01 %

What's Up in Space -- 25 Apr 2007
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What's the name of that star? Where's Saturn? Get the answers from mySKY--a fun new astronomy helper from Meade.

SUNSPOT ALERT: A new sunspot is emerging over the sun's east limb, and it may be a big one. Trevor Durity of Galway, Ireland, took this picture using his Personal Solar Telescope just hours ago:

The emergence of this spot ends a string of blank suns lasting almost the entire month of April. Its potential for solar flares will become clear as the spot turns to face Earth in the days ahead. Stay tuned for updates.

3D SUN: Grab your 3D glasses. NASA has released the first 3-dimensional images of the sun taken by the STEREO spacecraft. Coronal holes, prominences, polar plumes--see them all in the 3D photo gallery.

MAGNETO-HURRICANE: It strongly resembles a hurricane, but this rampaging storm is like nothing on Earth:

Japan's Hinode spacecraft made the movie on Dec. 13, 2006. It shows not wind and clouds but magnetic fields swirling around sunspot 930. The storm system was two Earth-diameters wide, or about the size of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Unlike cyclonic storms on Earth or Jupiter, however, this solar storm exploded, producing an X3-class solar flare and spectacular auroras on Earth. Get the full story from Science@NASA.



Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.

On 25 Apr 2007 there were 858 known Potentially
Hazardous Asteroids

April 2007 Earth-asteroid encounters
ASTEROID

 DATE
(UT)

MISS DISTANCE

MAG.

 SIZE
2006 VV2

Mar. 31

8.8 LD

10

2 km
2007 FY20

Apr. 2

5.3 LD

19

50 m
2007 DS84

Apr. 14

16 LD

15

325 m
2007 GU1

Apr. 16

2.1 LD

16

45 m
2007 HA

Apr. 17

6.5 LD

13

300 m
Notes: LD is a "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

Essential Web Links

NOAA Space Environment Center -- The official U.S. government bureau for real-time monitoring of solar and geophysical events, research in solar-terrestrial physics, and forecasting solar and geophysical disturbances.

Atmospheric Optics -- the first place to look for information about sundogs, pillars, rainbows and related phenomena.

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory -- Realtime and archival images of the Sun from SOHO. (European Mirror Site)

Daily Sunspot Summaries -- from the NOAA Space Environment Center.

Current Solar Images -- from the National Solar Data Analysis Center

Recent Solar Events -- a summary of current solar conditions from lmsal.com.

What is the Magnetosphere?

The Lion Roars -- visit this site to find out what the magnetosphere sounds like.

List of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids -- from the Harvard Minor Planet Center.

Observable Comets -- from the Harvard Minor Planet Center.

Real-time Solar Wind Data -- from NASA's ACE spacecraft.

How powerful are solar wind gusts? Not very! Read this story from Science@NASA.

More Real-time Solar Wind Data -- from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Proton Monitor.

Lists of Coronal Mass Ejections -- from 1996 to 2006

Mirages: Mirages in Finland; An Introduction to Mirages;

NOAA Solar Flare and Sunspot Data: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; Jan-Mar 2006; Apr-Jun 2006; Jul-Sep 2006; Oct-Dec 2006.

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