Looks like a fairly dense full halo CME leaving the sun headed our way courtesy of what was basically an X1 flare at 1950Z today. We should get speed and density models fairly soon now that it's visible.
Easier to appreciate by watching the LASCO C3 panel at:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard
Going frame by frame on the LASCO C3 instrument at 1954Z, there was only a small amount of image speckling from relativistic (speed of light) particles. The really big CMEs usually make a static snow effect as relativistic particles shower the sensor as kind of a warning of what's to come when the heavier stream arrives. Who knows. Wait and see.
Evenin'
Pretty sure she's not real.
Love it. Troll 'em moar, Queen Melania.
Rosalyn Carter
We're on a 4-year repeat cycle. They released the last bug late 2019…now here we f'n go again!
Darwin was right.
All but a corpse, soon to follow. Faustian bargains are no bargain.