 Our sun lights up like a Christmas tree this week as we take a look at our earth-facing disc We only have about five active regions in earth view But all of them are big flare players and the X factor comes from region 30 78 Which is fired more than eight big flares just since August 15th You can actually see the Sun kind of lighting up like a little paparazzi bulbs flashing everywhere now this region down here It's actually launched solar storms pretty much every time you see a big flash There's a big solar storm that's being launched along with it and these solar storms are partly earth directed So we actually at this point have a huge chain of solar storms that are going to be washing over earth in waves From about now because we're actually getting hit by the first one now Through about the 20th as of this moment in time. In fact when we take a look at coronagraphs You can actually see all of these solar storms just since about the 14th being launched one after the other after the other With the largest one being on the 17th This one is also earth directed and early Predictions say it's gonna hit earth right around midday on the 20th So Aurora photographers expect to get a big show Easily over the next few days just on and on and on as these storms continue to wash over us Now as we take a look at our farsighted sun This is stereo a and it's looking at the sun just a little bit from the side You can see region 3078 just lighting up down there in in the southwest from stereo's view and luckily as we look beyond it You see this other regions are reasonably quiet So thank goodness after this big X player rotates off of the earth view in about Four days or five days from now things should quiet down and that means amateur radio operators and anyone doing radio traffic for space Coms all of that should finally quiet down I would not be surprised if some launches got delayed just simply because of the radio bursts and all that that noise in The radio frequencies that happen with these big flare players. So just hang on and things will get better. I promise For more details on this week's space weather including how that big X flare player might affect you Come check out my channel or see me at space weather woman calm