First of all, a happy new year to all of our visitors! Thank you for making 2025 an unforgettable year with all of your amazing feedback and support! As is a tradition in many places, our Sun also celebrates that we again survived another lap around the Sun. Fireworks today as the Sun produced a M7.1 solar flare (R2-moderate) which peakerd at 13:51 UTC.<\/p>\n
The solar flare took place around sunspot region 4324 which is located on the Sun’s northern hemisphere, just a few degrees east of the central meridian. Type II and IV radio emissions were observed following the eruption and we see on coronagraph imagery from SOHO\/LASCO the resulting CME as it erupts out into space.<\/p>\n
A faint halo outline can be spotted but the bulk of the trajectory is heading well north-east of us. We expect a glancing blow from this coronal mass ejection late on Friday, 2 January. Considering the faint halo outline we do not expect more than minor G1 geomagnetic storm conditions at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First of all, a happy new year to all of our visitors! Thank you for making 2025 an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1102,11435,90117,8248,8250,107128,107135,107134,107129,4960,111,139,8247,69,147,107133,31720,21699,3886,392,1104,107131,107130,107127,101264,107132,3887],"class_list":["post-211371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aurora","tag-aurora-alert","tag-aurora-australis","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-aurora-forecast","tag-auroral-activity","tag-dscovr","tag-epam","tag-kp-index","tag-live","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-northern-lights","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-sdo","tag-solar-activity","tag-solar-flares","tag-solar-wind","tag-space","tag-space-weather","tag-space-weather-alerts","tag-space-weather-updates","tag-spaceweatherlive","tag-stereo","tag-sunspots","tag-the-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}