BACK TO WORK: After a quiet weekend with no flares of any significance, the sun went back to work on Monday morning and launched a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the expanding cloud during the early hours of Feb. 6th:
The source of the explosion is not yet clear. It appears to be a farside event, but first-look beacon data from NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft have not yet pinpointed the blast site. One thing seems sure: The cloud is not heading for Earth. Its northern trajectory is carrying it mainly out of the plane of the solar system and away from the planets. Stay tuned for updates. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.
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so, why is spaceweather holding back? are they still trying to plot trajectory? thank you for the information.
i ask, if, just like the apparent censorship on the USGS website, demoting earthquake or even ignoring them, I wonder if Spaceweather is keeping the whole truth from us. so, if things begin to get bad, will they obfuscate until they hit on a way to tell the public and not cause panic, example? I am very suspicious of all of them, sadly.
I think so, but they did not say it. So I really can not answer that
I just checked it now, you are right. but frontside can mean only one thing... is that right? so, is it heading for us?
I went to check and they changed this to update and see what it reads:
Update: New images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) show that this was a frontside event. The explosion occured when a magnetic filament draped over the sun's northeastern limb rose up and snapped. An extreme UV movie from SDO shows the structure lifting off. movie Solar flare alerts: text, voice.