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Sunspot AR1402 Kicks Up More Solar Energy

via SOHO/SpaceWeather

Sunspot AR1402, the source of this week’s powerful M9-class solar flare, is acting up again.

On Jan. 26th between 0100 UT and 0600 UT, a sequence of C-class magnetic eruptions around the active region hurled a bright coronal mass ejection over the sun’s north pole, shown here in a coronagraph image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

The cloud is not heading toward Earth, at least not directly. This and future eruptions from AR1402 are unlikely to be geoeffective as the sunspot is turning away from our planet. By week’s end it will be on the far side of the sun, blasting its CMEs toward planets on the opposite side of the solar system.

(Source: ikenbot)

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