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Space-news, 2/3/26
"This Sunspot Could Fry Our Power Grid"
"A monster sunspot that didn't exist 3 days ago just unleashed 21 solar flares in 24 hours, including an X8.3 eruption - the most powerful solar flare of 2026. Sunspot AR4366 is now half the size of the one that caused the 1859 Carrington Event. In this video, we break down what NASA and NOAA are tracking, why scientists are calling this region a "solar flare factory," and what a direct hit could mean for Earth's power grids, GPS systems, and satellites. Plus: could we see northern lights in the US this week?"
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The Sleepy Explorer
"The Monster Sunspot Is Growing -
And Now It's Entering the Strike Zone"
"For nearly a month, we’ve been following a trail of events that refuse to resolve cleanly. Five investigations in, the pattern hasn’t broken - it’s tightened. It began with a solar storm strong enough to destabilize the polar vortex, then escalated into a global seismic burst timed to a rare planetary alignment, followed by a shattered winter system, a historic bomb cyclone, and finally the largest solar flare in eight years. When the X8.1 flare fired and the CME turned out to be weak, the headlines moved on and the world was told the danger had passed. But that’s not what the data shows. What makes this moment different is what didn’t happen: the sunspot didn’t vent its energy - it pulled it back in. In the days since, it has grown larger, denser, and more magnetically unstable, and now it’s rotating into the exact position where any major eruption would be aimed directly at Earth. This documentary picks up where the coverage stopped, connecting the dots between solar physics, Earth’s increasingly sensitive systems, and a window of time that may be far more consequential than anyone wants to admit. The X8.1 wasn’t the ending. It may have been the opening signal."
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