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  1. NASA Interview Opportunity: Moonbound! NASA’s Artemis II Mission Days From Launch — First Crewed Journey Around the Moon in More Than 50 Years! 🌑🧑‍🚀

    #Artemis #Aurorae #Biological&PhysicalSciences #CME #Cleanroom #GeomagneticStorm #HDTV #HumanSpaceflight

    ⏩ 5 new pictures and 5 new videos from NASA (SVS) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spe

  2. Northern Lights Over North Cork

    You don’t expect to stand in a field north of Blarney and watch the northern lights, but here we are. Last night the aurora put on a show visible well into southern Ireland. Bands of pink and magenta hung across the sky, bleeding into that unmistakable green glow along the horizon. To the naked eye nothing could be seen, but the camera pulled out colours that made the whole scene look otherworldly.

    A passing car lit up the bare trees on the ridge at just the right moment, backlighting them with a warm glow that played off the green aurora behind. It was one of those happy accidents you couldn’t plan if you tried. Even the electricity poles added something, a reminder that this was a country road in Cork, not the Arctic Circle. These events have become more frequent as we near solar maximum, so keep an eye on the Kp index and have a dark-sky spot in mind, because the next one might be even better.


    Apertureƒ/2.8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length24mmISO6400Shutter speed3.2s

    #2026 #astrophotography #aurora #auroraBorealis #Blarney #Cork #geomagneticStorm #Ireland #nightSky #northernLights #Photo #Photography #ruralIreland #SamyangAF24mmF28FE #SonyA7RV #stars
  3. Sun releases the largest solar radiation storm ‘in over 20 years,’ forecasters say

    By Ashley Strickland, January 19, 2026

    "Powerful solar activity released by the sun is heading for Earth and it’s likely to create dazzling auroral displays in unexpected areas Monday evening and early Tuesday morning. It could also disrupt #satellite-based communications and #GPS accuracy.

    "A solar radiation storm, ranked at a level four out of five on a severity scale, is being tracked by the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center, or #SWPC.

    " 'An #S4 severe #SolarRadiation storm is now in progress - this is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years,' SWPC shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. 'The last time S4 levels were observed was in October, 2003. Potential effects are mainly limited to space launch, aviation, and satellite operations.' "

    Read more:
    cnn.com/2026/01/19/science/lar

    #SolarFlare #GeomagneticStorm #Satellites #KesslerSyndrome? #Starlink