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NOAA 3784 joins the club!

NOAA 3784 joined the club of X-class flare producing regions by unleashing an X1.1 on 14 August.

Another X-class flare

NOAA 3777 produced an X1.3 flare on 8 August. The associated CME has an earth-directed component. ***UPDATED (3)***

Solar hemispheric asymmetry

Driven by solar activity in especially the southern solar hemisphere, sunspot numbers reached their highest monthly values since December 2001.

The double X-class flare

An X1.7 flare was produced on 5 August at 13:40UTC. It was followed by an X1.1 flare at 15:27UTC produced by a different active region. ***UPDATED***

The best of... 2023!

An overview and movie of some spectacular solar and space weather events in 2023 are available at the STCE's solar cycle highlights webpage.

X1 flare

An M9.9 flare and an X1.5 flare were observed from the same active region NOAA 3766 on resp. 28 and 29 July.

Powerful eruption on the Sun's farside

Old NOAA 3738 produced a very strong X-class flare late on 22 July. Solar Orbiter's STIX instrument indicates this might have been an X14 flare. The associated CME is heading away from Earth, towards Solar Orbiter. ***UPDATED***

High sunspot numbers

Preliminary sunspot numbers during last week were the highest in 22 years.

X1 flare in NOAA 3738

NOAA 3738 produced an X1.2 flare on 14 July 2024. ***UPDATED (2)***

The STCE in 2022

The STCE Annual Report 2022 is now available at https://www.stce.be/annualReport

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