Four facts about the solar wind that will blow your mind: ☀️🌬️🤯 1. The solar wind has been blowing non-stop since the Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago. ⌛ 2. It travels about 1 million miles an hour (and faster). 🏃 3. It carries about 1.5 million tons of mass away from the Sun every second. 😯 4. It could keep blowing at that rate for a TRILLION YEARS without depleting the Sun! ⚖️ Q: That’s a lot of solar wind — so where does it all go? 🤔👇 A: The solar wind fills space around us to cre

The newest NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center ENLIL model includes four Earth-directed CMEs. The one to watch now is the X9 CME which should be arriving tonight according to them. However, there isn't any signature of the incoming CME in low-energy particles, so impact may be late tonight/early tomorrow. The HUXt CME model has impact 10-6 at 8 UTC which is around 3 am CDT but includes an error margin up to 10 am CDT Sunday morning. | Vincent Ledvina - 'The Aurora Guy'