The Observatory gets a lot of questions about our very active sun, particularly when can we see aurora again and what all these CME's and sunspots mean. Some have heard of the Carrington event in 1859, or the newly discovered Miyake event.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240815-miyake-events-the-giant-solar-superstorms-that-could-rock-earth

Image: Franco Fellah with a full disk in the Calcium wavelength of the very active sun, including AR3784 near the center and AR3780 approaching the limb from Westport CT on August 14.

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