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Strongest Solar Flare of 2025 (X5.1) Triggers Radio Blackouts; NOAA Confirms G4 Geomagnetic Storm

Severe ‘Cannibal’ Solar Storm Hits Earth Today (12 November 2025): NOAA Confirms G4 Levels, ESA Warns of Third CME; UK on Highest Alert and NASA Delays Launch

Published: 12 November 2025 A powerful burst of space weather is sweeping across Earth today, disrupting radio communications, degrading GPS accuracy and setting the stage for another night of widespread aurora. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirms G4 “severe” geomagnetic storm levels were reached early on Wednesday, while the European Space Agency (ESA) says a third coronal mass ejection (CME) could arrive late tonight or early Thursday—potentially prolonging disruptions. In the UK, the British Geological Survey (BGS) has upgraded its forecast to the highest intensity, warning this could be the biggest solar storm to affect Britain in
12 November 2025
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G4 ‘Severe’ Solar Storm Today (Nov. 12, 2025): X5.1 Flare Triggers Radio Blackouts; Northern Lights Stretch From Mexico to Australia

G4 ‘Severe’ Solar Storm Today (Nov. 12, 2025): X5.1 Flare Triggers Radio Blackouts; Northern Lights Stretch From Mexico to Australia

What’s happening now The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that G4 (Severe) geomagnetic storm levels were reached at 01:20 UTC on Nov. 12 and that G1–G4 conditions could continue overnight, driven by successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs). NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center+1 In a midday update, NOAA added that strong (G3) storming has persisted and that the Nov. 11 CME is still expected to keep elevated storm levels going into Nov. 14 (UTC)—meaning another night or two of aurora potential and intermittent space‑weather impacts. NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Across the Atlantic, the UK Met Office notes that
12 November 2025
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Severe G4 Solar Storm Lights Up Skies: Northern Lights Visible Across U.S., Southern Lights in Australia — Where to Watch Tonight (Nov. 12, 2025)

Severe G4 Solar Storm Lights Up Skies: Northern Lights Visible Across U.S., Southern Lights in Australia — Where to Watch Tonight (Nov. 12, 2025)

What’s happening The Sun’s recent burst of activity sent a train of CMEs toward Earth. Overnight, the storm escalated to G4 (severe) levels, which NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) confirmed at 01:20 UTC on Nov. 12 (8:20 p.m. EST, Nov. 11). Forecasters say geomagnetic storming “is anticipated to continue into the night,” keeping aurora chances elevated. NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center The severe watch was posted ahead of time due to a sequence of CMEs—including one tied to an X5.1‑class solar flare at 10:04 UTC on Nov. 11—with forecasters flagging uncertainty around the exact arrival timing but high confidence
12 November 2025
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Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

Northern Lights Alert: Major Solar Storm Could Ignite Stunning Aurora Displays Across North America

What’s Causing the Aurora Spectacle? The Northern Lights (aurora borealis) occur when bursts of solar plasma slam into Earth’s magnetic field and excite atmospheric gases. In this case, four CMEs from an active sunspot region are en route to our planet. Space weather forecasters describe it as a “train of solar storms” headed our way space.com. As NOAA explains, when the Sun “burps out huge bubbles of electrified gas” (a CME), those particles stream toward Earth and interact with atoms in the upper atmosphere, creating beautiful displays of light ourmidland.com. NASA casually calls this phenomenon a solar “sun burp” –
16 October 2025
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Northern Lights Alert! Solar Storms, Draconid Meteors & a Bright Harvest Moon Dazzle Oct. 8–9, 2025

Northern Lights Alert! Solar Storms, Draconid Meteors & a Bright Harvest Moon Dazzle Oct. 8–9, 2025

Geomagnetic Storms & Aurora Alerts A geomagnetic storm watch is in effect, as Earth encounters the debris of two solar eruptions from earlier this month. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts minor G1-class geomagnetic storms on October 8, with a slight chance they intensify to moderate G2 level people.com. These disturbances are caused by a pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – clouds of charged solar plasma – that launched from the Sun on Oct. 3–4 and are just now arriving at Earth earthsky.org. As a result, skywatchers at high latitudes have an elevated chance to witness the aurora borealis
8 October 2025
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Secret SpaceX Launch, Starlink Triumphs, and Solar Storm Warnings – Space News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

Secret SpaceX Launch, Starlink Triumphs, and Solar Storm Warnings – Space News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

SpaceX launched a secret Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral on July 13, 2025 at 1:04 a.m. EDT carrying Israel’s Dror-1 satellite, described as a $200 million “smartphone in space” and marking Falcon 9’s 500th flight with the booster’s 13th successful landing on a droneship. China prepared the Tianzhou-9 cargo mission to Tiangong by rolling out a Long March-7 Y10 on July 12, aiming to deliver about 6.5 tons of supplies, two new-generation spacesuits rated for 20 spacewalks each, and a backup Long March-7 rocket on standby. Rocket Lab conducted a suborbital HASTE mission from Wallops Island on July 12
14 July 2025
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Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic‑storm watch for the night of 25 June 2025. A negative-polarity coronal hole crossing the Sun’s central meridian is releasing plasma at roughly 500–800 km/s toward Earth. The fast solar wind could drive auroras as far south as Colorado, New York and Oregon and briefly disturb power grids, satellites and GPS. Peer‑reviewed modeling in Nature Scientific Reports shows high-speed streams routinely trigger medium geomagnetic storms that can inject more energy into near‑Earth space than rarer CMEs over a solar cycle. A compressed co-rotating interaction region at the leading edge combined with
25 June 2025
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