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Sweet but a little bit psycho

Submitted on 2019-05-07

An at first sight simple and symmetric sunspot produced a series of C-class flares. For the moment, none of the associated coronal mass ejections seems to have an earth-directed component.

Dynamic NOAA 2738

Submitted on 2019-04-17

A big but quiet sunspot is transiting the solar disk. Photospheric lightbridges over this sunspot are continuously giving it a different appearance.

Preliminary prediction for the new solar cycle 25

Submitted on 2019-04-11

An international team of researchers has issued a preliminary prediction for the upcoming solar cycle 25 (SC25). The strength of the new cycle is expected to be similar to the still ongoing solar cycle 24 (SC24).

Space junk

Submitted on 2019-04-03

The space debris from an Indian satellite, destroyed in-orbit during a test with their anti-satellite missile system on 27 March, has raised concerns about the potential impacts on other satellites.

Cosmic Rays - how to handle them

Submitted on 2019-04-02

Cosmic rays and energetic particles are an issue for humans in high altitude polar flights, humans travelling in space, space technology, radio communication near the Earth poles and more. No need to say that these particles need our attention.

A new Topical Issue for the SWSC Journal

Submitted on 2019-03-27

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) has opened a new Topical Issue entitled "Scientific Advances from the European Commission Horizon 2020 projects on Space Weather".

A new load of space meteo operators

Submitted on 2019-03-22

8 enthousiast meteo operators followed the STCE course to get transformed to a space weather operator. From March 14 onwards, they carry the title 'Trained and certified space weather operator'. The STCE space weather bulletin has no secrets anymore.

GLEs and the solar cycle

Submitted on 2019-03-06

Ground Level Enhancements: what are they, what impacts do they have on us and our technology, and when during the solar cycle do they generally occur?

Almost No sunspots in February

Submitted on 2019-03-01

No sunspots sliding from left to right, no sunspots popping up. February 2019 was almost the first spotless month since a decade. Almost, because the exercise done each first of a month to calculate the sunspot numbers of the previous month, the World Data Center for the sunspot number, put the provisional daily sunspot number on February 13 and 11 not to zero.