{"id":233496,"date":"2025-10-30T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:47:10","slug":"suns-far-side-erupts-in-satellite-image-photo-of-the-day-for-oct-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233496\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun’s far side erupts in satellite image photo of the day for Oct. 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late on Oct. 21, 2025<\/a>, a spectacular coronal mass ejection<\/a> (CME) erupted from the far side of the sun<\/a>, an area currently dominated by the powerful and persistent Active Region 4246. <\/a> The eruption occurred just after the active region had rotated beyond the sun’s western limb, out of direct view from Earth<\/a> and the weather satellites that monitor solar activity. <\/a><\/p>\n

What is it?<\/p>\n

CMEs are among the most awe-inspiring explosions in the solar system<\/a>. These vast eruptions hurl immense clouds of magnetized plasma from the sun’s corona into interplanetary space, sometimes at millions of miles per hour.<\/p>\n

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Yet many of these powerful outbursts occur where we can’t see them directly, on the far side<\/a> of the sun, hidden from Earth’s telescopes. These events still shape the solar wind environment that later sweeps past our planet or impacts other worlds, such as Venus<\/a> and Mars.<\/a><\/p>\n

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That’s where the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR-1)<\/a> instrument aboard NOAA’s GOES-19 weather satellite comes in. CCOR-1 blocks the sun’s bright disk to capture faint white-light structures in the outer corona, tracking CMEs as they expand into space.<\/p>\n

Where is it?<\/p>\n

The CCOR-1 on NOAA’s GOES-19<\/a> satellite orbits around 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above Earth’s equator.<\/p>\n

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The explosive CME from the sun’s far side was captured in this satellite image. (Image credit: NOAA)Why is it amazing?<\/p>\n

When aimed toward Earth, these sorts of eruptions can set off brilliant auroras, disrupt satellites<\/a> and disturb power systems. Although no direct effects were felt on Earth with this particular CME, the event showed how powerful our sun can truly be.<\/p>\n

CCOR-1’s imagery offered a glimpse of “the storm we missed,” one that, if rotated just a few days earlier, could have driven a major geomagnetic disturbance.<\/p>\n

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You can learn more about the solar cycle<\/a> and weather satellites. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late on Oct. 21, 2025, a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the far side of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}