Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment. The sun is littered with spots, but none have magnetic fields more complex than beta-class . Solar wind gusts from this coronal hole should arrive at Earth by Sunday. SOHO Extreme Ultraviolet Telescope. Earth-orbiting satellites are likely to experience electronic glitches.
Astronauts are safe so long as they avoid extra-vehicular activities.
If so, the disturbance could strike our planet's magnetosphere late Friday or Saturday and trigger aurora. A series of movies shows how the apparent speed of the asteroid rapidly increased in the early days of November and then peaked at 29 degrees per day as the space rock made its closest approach to Earth. Amateur astronomers with 8 inch or larger telescopes can still spot 2000 UG11 for themselves as it slowly fades this week. The early-November Taurids take center stage this week as the phase of the Moon becomes full. November's main event, the Leonids, are just around the corner.