Coronal hole faces Earth
Friday, 13 May 2016 17:52 UTC
A southern extension of the northern hemisphere polar coronal hole is now facing Earth.
While this coronal hole is at a fairly high latitude, the NOAA SWPC thinks it could bring us minor G1 geomagnetic storm conditions on Monday, 16 May 2016.
Transit of Mercury
Back on Monday we witnessed one of the astronomical highlights of this year: the transit of Mercury. We're you unable to see this event with your own eyes or otherwise missed it? Then no worries, on our YouTube channel we have a video of the transit as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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