{"id":59638,"date":"2024-05-08T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59638"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:40:44","slug":"spaceweather-com-sunspot-visually-rivals-carringtons-famous-sunspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/spaceweather-com-sunspot-visually-rivals-carringtons-famous-sunspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceweather.com: Sunspot “visually rivals Carrington’s famous sunspot”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Troy Riedel, who shares the following news via Spaceweather.com<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Above: Carrington’s sunspot (to scale) compared to today’s giant sunspot AR3664.<\/p><\/div>\n

HUGE SUNSPOT HURLS CME TOWARD EARTH:<\/strong> A sunspot so large it visually rivals Carrington’s famous sunspot of 1859 hurled a CME toward Earth today. Don’t worry! A new Carrington Event is not in the offing. The incoming CME isn’t potent enough. However, this huge sunspot merits watching while Earth is in its strike zone. Full story @ Spaceweather.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CME impact alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts<\/a> to receive an instant text message when the CME arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Troy Riedel, who shares the following news via Spaceweather.com: HUGE SUNSPOT HURLS CME TOWARD EARTH: A sunspot so large it visually rivals Carrington’s famous sunspot of 1859 hurled a CME toward Earth today. Don’t worry! A new Carrington Event is not in the offing. The incoming CME isn’t potent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,810],"tags":[4107,4581],"class_list":["post-59638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-space-weather","tag-space-weather","tag-troy-riedel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fvU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37109,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/active-sunspot-returns\/","url_meta":{"origin":59638,"position":0},"title":"Active sunspot returns","author":"Thomas","date":"May 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Spaceweather via Troy Riedel) This weekend, old sunspot AR2738 is returning from a two-week trip around the farside of the sun. 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