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Data visualization credit: NASA/AJ Christensen

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The May 2024 geomagnetic storm created two extra radiation belts, sandwiched between the two permanent Van Allen Belts. One of the new belts, shown in purple, included a population of protons, giving it a unique composition that hadn’t been seen before. The discovery of the new belts is particularly important for protecting spacecraft launching into geostationary orbits, since they travel through the Van Allen Belts several times before reaching their final orbit.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Kristen Perrin

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The aurora borealis in Bear Lake, Utah, on May 10, 2024.

Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford

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Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford

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Credit: NASA/Mara Johnson-Groh

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The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all this imagery. || ", "release_date": "2024-07-09T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-07-02T15:21:22.581789-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1094220, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005200/a005292/20240513_AR13664M66_AIA.0131A_PSF_stamped.000405_print.jpg", "filename": "20240513_AR13664M66_AIA.0131A_PSF_stamped.000405_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Active Region 13664 (on the lower right limb) launches an M6.6 flare in this view through the SDO AIA 131 ångstrom filter.", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } }, { "id": 5281, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5281/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "An M5.1 flare from Active Region 13663 - May 7, 2024", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.An M5.1 flare (upper right quadrant) erupts from active region 13663 on May 7, 2004. More details about the event can be found at Space Weather Database entry.For more information on the classification of solar flares, see Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? or X-Class: A Guide to Solar Flares. The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all this imagery. || ", "release_date": "2024-07-02T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-06-18T13:03:00.334981-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1093726, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005200/a005281/20240507_AR13663M51_AIA.0131A_PSF_stamped.000301_print.jpg", "filename": "20240507_AR13663M51_AIA.0131A_PSF_stamped.000301_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The sun launches an M5.1 flare (upper right quadrant) on May 7, 2024 in this view from the SDO/AIA 131 ångstrom filter.", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } }, { "id": 5282, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5282/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "An M8.2 flare from Active Region 13663 - May 7, 2024", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.Yet another M-flare, this time M8.2, is launched from active region 13663 (upper right quadrant) in this view from SDO on May 7, 2024. More details of this event can be found at the Space Weather Database entry. For more information on the classification of solar flares, see Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? or X-Class: A Guide to Solar Flares. The point-spread function correction (PSF) has been applied to all this imagery. || ", "release_date": "2024-07-02T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2024-06-25T09:39:50.814230-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1093839, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005200/a005282/20240507_AR13663M82_AIA.0131A_PSF_stamped.000303_print.jpg", "filename": "20240507_AR13663M82_AIA.0131A_PSF_stamped.000303_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "The sun launches an M8.2 flare (upper right quadrant) on May 7, 2024 in this view from the SDO/AIA 131 ångstrom filter.", "width": 1024, "height": 1024, "pixels": 1048576 } }, { "id": 5283, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5283/", "page_type": "Visualization", "title": "Multiple M- and X-flares from Active Region 13663 and 13664 - May 8, 2024", "description": "Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) operates in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth to obtain a continuous view of the Sun. The particular instrument in this visualization records imagery in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum at wavelengths normally absorbed by Earth's atmosphere - so we need to observe them from space.An X1.0 flare from active region 13663 (upper right quadrant) marks a hand-off to active region 13664 (lower center) for many subsequent bright flares for the next day. For more details, see their entries in the Space Weather database at the links below:X1.0 (AR13663 @ 2024-05-08T01:41Z)X1.0 (AR13664 @ 2024-05-08T05:09Z)M7.1 (AR13664 @ 2024-05-08T06:53Z)M8.6 (AR13664 @ 2024-05-08T12:04Z)M7.9 (AR13664 @ 2024-05-08T17:53Z)X1.0 (AR13664 @ 2024-05-08T21:40Z)M9.8 (AR13664 @ 2024-05-08T22:27Z)For more information on the classification of solar flares, see Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? or X-Class: A Guide to Solar Flares. 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