Late in the afternoon on Tuesday, October 1, one of the strongest solar flares of the current cycle blasted out from the Sun. This flare, ranked as X7.1-class, originated from a fast-growing sunspot named AR3842. Given the density and speed of the solar storm when it arrives on Frday and into Saturday, and the energy the particles it the cloud may be carrying with them at that time, forecasters with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center have issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch.

Now that the Iceland volcanic eruption is over, we'll be pointing our camera to the stars to capture the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) over the Sundhnúkur Crater Row near Grindavik in Iceland.

More details can be found here: https://www.spaceweather.gov/communit...

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Music credits:
'I Walk With Ghosts’, ‘Shadows and Dust’, ‘Cirrus’, ‘The Long Dark’, ‘Hymn To The Dawn’, ‘A Kind Of Hope’, ‘Permafrost’, 'Last and First Light’, ‘Decoherence’’, Adrift Among Infinite Stars’, ‘Aurora’, ’Falling Together’, ‘What We Don't Say’, ‘Beautiful Oblivion’, ‘Hiraeth’, ‘Ephemera’, ‘The Distant Sun’, 'The Things That Keep Us Here’, ‘The Spaces Between’, 'The Vision', ’The Restoration', 'The Long Way Home' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au