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LYRID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Friday morning, April 22nd, with as many as 20 meteors per hour. [...]

IN MEMORY OF TOM CARR: Today's edition of spaceweather.com is dedicated to Prof. Thomas D. Carr, who died on April 19th at the age of 94. A noted space scientist specializing in radio emissions from planets, Dr. Carr mentored generations [...]

AURORA WATCH: A slow-moving CME could hit Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of April 21st, sparking a new round of high-latitude auroras. NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of geomagnetic activity. Aurora alerts: voice, [...]

SOLAR FLARES: Emerging sunspot complex 1195-1196 is crackling with C-flares. John Stetson and students in South Portland, Maine, caught one of them, a C4-class eruption, today at 1500 UT:

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