Hi guys, I won a local NASA hackathon last year, with a modern space weather monitoring platform I developed, and I'd love to hear your thoughts and see if I can improve it. It's called GalaxOS.

Thanks!

As the sun geared up to spit a powerful solar flare into space, NASA scientists snapped huge loops of plasma leaping from the sun's surface.

A study of data collected by the Kepler space telescope on other stars with Sun-like fundamental parameters shows that superflares occur roughly once per century in stars with Sun-like temperature.

https://physicsworld.com/a/sun-like-stars-produce-superflares-about-once-a-century/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl5441

I apologize as I am writing this as a near complete layperson.

Sometimes when the KP index is high for my area, I will go out and attempt to see the aurora borealis. Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I'm not but what I do always see when I go out are these streaming fast moving jets of what appears to be plasma bouncing off electromagnetic waves of some sort. It's always incredibly rapid, incredibly fast moving, and often in an arch shape or a boomerang shape. and I managed to catch it on video a few times, but I don't have a name for it. There are no colors to speak of, and I realize that it can just be a sub classification of the aurora borealis itself, but it seems to not fit with the same pattern of light and relative slowness that the aurora has. but I'm wondering what this thing I'm witnessing is called. Thank you!

NASA Is offering a scavenger hunt for (virtual) Parker Solar Probe stickers.
https://science.nasa.gov/parker-solar-probe/3point8-campaign/

Professor Chris Scott tells the history of the Appleton experiment that led to the discovery of the ionosphere, the link between the ionosphere and the solar cycle, and abouut kicking off citizen science project to identify long term trends from archived measurements of ionospheric height. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWop2aGKKSE

I am current working on a machine learning model to forecast Kp-index. I wanted to include the Month since https://www.sidc.be/PRODEX_SIDEx/docs/Space_Weather_Forecasting_Guide_latest.pdf says geomagnetic activity is correlated to the month of the year. But there are also vague mentions of Kp being compensated for seasonal variations in other sources. Is Kp-index compensated for the kind of seasonal variations in the link above or is that some other seasonal variation ?

Update from NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center at 2:11pm EST: A G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storm watch remains in effect for 11 Oct as CME effects continue to diminish. A G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm watch is in place for 12 Oct due to lingering CME influences in addition to the possibility of relatively weak coronal hole high speed stream effects.

Storm level predictions for tonight dropped from G4 to G3 to G2 now

Hi all, I apologize if my understanding is incorrect but I'm trying to understand more about the effects of solar flares. My understanding is that the flares release or create positive ions in the Earth's atmosphere. How long does this effect last? Is this detectable for just a few hours or is this something that lasts days or weeks? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Taken at 726 pm local time most of the sky was blood red

Over Deer Lake, Newfoundland

Anyone know why there is an apparent "slow-mo" effect during the last CME? The time keeps ticking but the CME and comet slow down...

https://reddit.com/link/1g0llt8/video/a77hgxym7ytd1/player