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#heliophysics ☀️

Calling all aurora chasers! If you see the Lights tonight, please make a participatory science report to aurorasaurus.org. By providing ground truth data, you can help scientists answer questions and improve models. If yu try and are not able to see aurora, making a negative no report also helps! Make a participatory science report to Aurorasaurus: let's light up the map!

Just in from Aurorasaurus.org! 🎆🌌

Here’s hoping! 🤞

Finally some X class flares!

Beautiful!

Sharing for people in Oakland!

The last 10 days of CME activity - what a show! Now, let's keep this same energy on the Earth-facing disk! AR 4246, AR 4248, and maybe some other fiesty active regions will be rotating into our view within the next few days.

#nasa is shuttering the Goddard #space #flight center in a move that may not be entirely legal, according to critics. For months, our #staff #writer @joshdinner.bsky.social interviewed NASA #employees, read #senate reports and more to give you the deepest dive yet.

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16 days of coronal mass ejections - most of them far sided - some of them very fast and very large. We'll see if the Sun continues like this…

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Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]

Shielding Chart

xkcd.com/3158/

Always when ARs rotate on or off the disk 😖

This is a flyer for the 5th annual Virtual Prospective Grad Student & Postdoctoral Opportunity Fair put on by the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society. More information here: https://spd.aas.org/graduate-student-postdoc-opportunity-fair

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Announcing: the AAS/SPD grad student & postdoc opportunity fair, Wed. 5-Nov. Hear about opportunities across the nation, meet potential advisors, & learn about your next career step.

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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Physics) The Department of Physics at Oregon State University (OSU) is seeking an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure/tenure-track faculty position.Any hiri...

Come join us at a fantastic physics department in the great PNW!

The Oregon State University Department of Physics is looking to hire a tenure-track faculty in theoretical/computational condensed matter physics. Full consideration deadline: November 5th, 2025.
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The IC 1396 A dark globule.

#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day

An Unusual Globule in IC 1396

Credit: Joachim Korb www.astro-joko.de

www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🧪🔭

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Look what just came! It looks amazing.

It’s on every NASA hosted website. There are way worse messages on other federal agency websites, too.

Our amazing #NASA #Goddard representatives speaking to #Congress on the @planetarysociety Day of Action! Keep fighting for NASA funding, everyone!

Hello, everyone! In case you have not completed our survey on space weather forecasting, please do so by the end of the week.

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#heliophysics

NSO Receives Funding from NSF to Design the Next-Generation Solar Observing Network to Advance Solar Science and Space Weather Forecasting - NSO - National Solar Observatory The U. S. NSF National Solar Observatory will design a Next-Generation Ground-based Solar Observing Network (ngGONG) advancing space-weather forecasting.

Very nice to see ngGONG move forward! GONG is a decades-old global instrument on which the Sun never sets, to observe the Sun around the clock. It provides very important continuous monitoring of space weather and allows us to image the interior of the star itself. ☀️

After six days of fundraising, I am now 91% to my goal of supporting the website through 2028. Thanks to the 376 amazing people who have made a donation. If you too would like to support my work, please visit the link. Thanks for your support. solarham.com/donate.htm

The Orion spacecraft captured this image on Dec. 5, 2022, during the 20th day of the Artemis I mission. The Orion spacecraft is partially visible on the left side of the image. The gray, cratered surface of the Moon is partially in shadow near the bottom of the image. The Earth, which appears as a crescent moon, can be glimpsed in the distance on the right side of the image. Glare is reflecting off the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA

Artemis II is launching in early 2026. You coming with?

Now you can. Submissions are open to fly your name around the Moon.

Your name will be recorded on a memory card that will be stowed inside the Orion spacecraft. Sign up here: https://go.nasa.gov/artemisnames

5500 light years from us, new stars are being born ✨ This stunning new #jwst image showcases 2 of the brightest & most massive stars known - weighing in at over 60x the mass of our Sun! Data like this are helping us understand how stars are born. Read more: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

A blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers the upper two-thirds of the vertical image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and pale orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista of dust and gas with spire-like peaks and deep, misty valleys. The peaks appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. Above their soaring spires is a wispy, ethereal white cloud that stretches horizontally across the scene. What looks like steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and joins this cloud. At the top right corner, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the blistering winds and ultraviolet light of nearby, massive, infant stars. What else did #NASAWebb find in Pismis 24? https://bit.ly/4mr3cmt

FYI folks, the Big Holidays coming up are:

Rosh Hashanah is Mon 22 Sep-24 Sep
Yom Kippur is Wed 1 Oct - 2 Oct

And also? You don't have to KNOW who's Jewish to not schedule meetings these days. Just do it.

(AND DON'T BE ALL "WE HAVE TO MOVE IT BECAUSE [PERSON] IS JEWISH" THAT'S TACKY & GROSS)

And by most important, it is the equivalent of putting a training on Christmas.

And something like this happens *every year*.

I once lost a friend over something scheduled on Yom Kippur that she was annoyed I suggested we had to move.

Note that models will be re-run as more data come in from this CME. Models will have different arrival times, and some agencies may disagree on the forecasted geomagnetic storm strength. Here is an updated NASA M2M model. The arrival time remains at around 19 UT on September 1.

Wow, nice preliminary model run of the M2.7 CME… healthy impact at Earth! Estimated impact time is for Sep 1 at 19 UT +/- 7 hr. Potential for G2-G3 geomagnetic storming just from an eye test.

Will have more updates tonight as I am on a plane right now with bad WiFi.

As soon as sunspots directly face Earth: 😴

Technically, AR 4197 has a 15% chance of X-flares, but you wouldn't believe me based on how quiet it's been...