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Comet ATLAS

Submitted on 2025-01-20

Comet ATLAS made an impressive appearance in the imagery by STEREO-A and SOHO during the third week of January 2025.

Topical Issue "Severe SWx events of May 2024 and their impacts"

Submitted on 2025-01-20

JSWSC has extended the deadline for submissions to the Topical Issue on the May 2024 space weather events to 30 April 2025.

A stretched out filament

Submitted on 2025-01-13

A million km long filament has been transiting the solar disk during the last 2 weeks.

X-class flares by NOAA 3947

Submitted on 2025-01-03

NOAA 3947 has been the source of several X- and M-class flares over the last 48 hours. ***Updated (2)***

X-class flares and severe geomagnetic storm

Submitted on 2024-12-29

Coronal mass ejections, associated with a series of M- and X-class flares on 29 and 30 December, have resulted in a severe geomagnetic storm. ***UPDATED (4)***

X2 flare

Submitted on 2024-12-09

An X2 flare was associated with a particular feature at radio frequencies.

December 5, 11:34 CET: Successful Proba-3 launch

Submitted on 2024-12-05

NL - FR

“Signal received” After a smooth launch that was postponed by one day, operators and scientists waited to receive a first sign of life from the Proba-3 satellites.

Launch of Proba-3: delayed until December 5

Submitted on 2024-11-29

NL - FR

Proba-3 is the latest ESA mission to be launched in December, 2024. The exploitation of ASPIICS, the instrument imaging the solar corona, is in the hands of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), where the associated scientific research will also be coordinated.