Today’s G1 with brief G2 spike is caused by back to back CMEs hitting Earth and the arrival of fast solar wind from a coronal 🕳️ hole. My ears are ringing sharp and loud, and I have a minor surging headache that comes and goes. See images above of current space weather charts.
Date: March 2022
Article: 112066
Volume: Volume 204, Part B
Solar storms can negatively affect the human immune system. (as always, healthy people are probably barely if at all affected. Those of us with health challenges and hypersensitivity are at more risk.)
"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001393512101361X
“Increased solar activity and geomagnetic disturbances are associated with significant decreases in peripheral leukocytes.*”
The associations remained similar after controlling for ambient air pollution.
Melatonin secretion and nervous system dysregulation are the hypothesized mechanisms of this association”
The sunspot appears darker than the surrounding surface as it is a lot cooler. The spots are formed by strong magnetic fields perpendicular to the surface, which suppress the convection of hot material from below. It is this convection that forms the granulation seen around the spot.
The sunspot was imaged at a near UV wavelength of t 396.8 nanometres. Filmed on 2nd July 2010 by the Swedish one-metre Solar Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, in the Canary Islands.
Credit: Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope/Luc Rouppe van der Voort
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on September 1–2, 1859
Simulation Credit: NASA
Nature portfolio Journal, 26 August 2026
SHORT VERSION: strong space weather from the sun has negative health effects. But what's even worse for us is Solar Minimum, when low space weather allows more Cosmic Rays (particles) from outside the solar system down to ground level on Earth.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00498-z
"Space weather, comprising galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and solar and geomagnetic activities (SGAs), was previously associated with shorter telomere length in older men in Massachusetts. In the same cohort, the Normative Aging Study, we analyzed 1487 blood DNA methylation measures from 771 older men during 1999–2013. Daily space-weather indicators included sunspot number (SSN), interplanetary magnetic field, Kp-index, neutron monitor counts, and modeled cosmic ray-induced ionization. The prespecified exposure window was a 30-day moving average. Epigenetic age acceleration across four clocks was the primary outcome; epigenome-wide association (EWAS), regional, and pathway enrichment analyses were secondary and exploratory. In the primary analysis, GCRs were associated with accelerated epigenetic aging, whereas SGAs were associated with slower aging. Each interquartile-range increase in SSN corresponded to 0.61-year lower HorvathAgeAccel and 0.50-year lower PhenoAgeAccel; higher neutron counts corresponded to 0.32-year greater HorvathAgeAccel and 0.29-year greater HannumAgeAccel. In exploratory analyses, EWAS identified hundreds of CpGs associated with GCRs (mostly hypomethylated) and thousands with SGAs (mostly hypermethylated), enriched in P53 signaling, DNA repair, and inflammatory pathways, paralleling astronaut findings. Short-term space weather variation was associated with differences in epigenetic aging measures in this cohort, identifying ground-level space weather as an underexplored environmental correlate of molecular aging."
Ukraine started last year using robots to kill the invading Russian forces. Palantir uses ai to track and kill people in Gaza. We are in this dystopian future scenario, still seemingly without a plan or guidelines.
This was a vinyl record launch, a red variant, a CD, other things. I may have insight to your questions?
Hello,
I apologize for fewer posts, it’s a busy time. But space weather waits for no one, and the sun has been popping off Earth-directed M flares. You’ll see in the charts I’ve screenshot, that we currently have been at very low GP conditions. This usually allows Earth’s EM field to settle and shrink. We have at least one, and a potentially fast-moving CME inbound. Forecast says Thursday, but I see impact Friday on Enlil, combined with solar wind stream energy around the full moon. When we’re below HP and a CME hits, it can result in stronger than expected storming, so I won’t be surprised if we see brief G3 or higher.
I’ll update here as charts and forecast update.
Hypersensensitive members here will be feeling it this week. Already, I was unable to slept last night. How are you doing?
We made a protest album. I banded together with drummers from popular metal / rock bands to create a record/CD of all-drums protest music. Profits go to ACLU (although we're not allowed to say on Kickstarter).
Our extended live tracks have been used in noise demos and protests across the country for the past year.
Our motley crew of drummers have played with Failure, Hum, Molly McGuire, Hum, Billy Idol, Flaming Lips, Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell, sisters, Spotlights, etc) Trying to create a stronger act of resistance through art and music. Check it out.
(Actually, I do want to make a future album with some of these tracks having sick guitar and bass over them)
The following video is a compilation which presents multiple UAP recordings reportedly captured in rural areas around Fuyang, Anhui Province, China, on the evening of 14 August 2026.
The original camera operators, exact filming locations, individual capture times, and earliest uploads of the separate clips have not yet been independently identified.
Because this is a multi-clip compilation rather than a confirmed first-generation witness upload, each segment should be assessed separately.
The footage is presented for examination and discussion. Viewers are encouraged to consider both anomalous and conventional explanations and reach their own conclusions from the evidence currently available.
Original Source Credits: Unidentified.
Unadilla race replay has no audio.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drumcorpse/drum-corpse-volume-1-protest-drums-by-rock-drummers-vinyl ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT, please support. Profits go to ACLU.
Side A
1 We Will Be Victorious, Resistance is Glorious
with Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Bowie, SNL)
2 No Ice, No KKK, No Fascist USA
with Erik Eldenius (Billy Idol, Dave Navarro)
3 The People United Will Never Be Defeated
with Kellii Scott (Failure, Veruca Salt) and Matthias Bossi (SGM, Ridiculon) *
4 Tax the Rich!
with Jason Gerken (Shiner, Molly McGuire, HUM)
5 This is What Democracy Looks Like
with Chris Enriquez (Spotlights, Julie Christmas)
Side B
6 No Kings, No Tyrants! We Will Not Be Silent
with Greg Saunier (Deerhoof, Big Walnuts Yonder) *
7 Hands Off Our Democracy
with Blake Fleming (The Mars Volta, Dazzling Killmen)
8 Stand Up Fight Back
with Kliph Scurlock (Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys) *
9 Its Time to Fight
with Noah Leger (FACS, Electric Hawk) *
10 Disruptor
with Ian Prince (Birdhands, sisters)
*with Matthias Bossi (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Skeleton Key)
Learn how violent solar storms shower Earth with radioactive atoms.
If superflares are akin to celestial temper tantrums, then our Sun might get angry more often than previously thought, according to a report in the journal Science. A superflare, defined as a solar storm that releases over one octillion joules of energy within a short time, manifests itself in data as a short, pronounced peak in brightness.
Understanding superflares’ regularity can be useful, because they can be potentially damaging. For example, a violent solar storm in 1859 knocked out the telegraph network in parts of Europe and North America. That Carrington event, while one of the strongest solar storms of the past 200 years, released only a hundredth of the energy of a superflare.
If these events happen hundreds of years apart, how can scientists measure their frequency?
“We cannot observe the Sun over thousands of years,” Sami Solanki, an astronomer with the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and coauthor of the paper, said in a press release. “However, we can monitor the behavior of thousands of stars very similar to the Sun over short periods of time. This helps us to estimate how frequently superflares occur.”
The team monitored data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope from 2009 to 2013, which encompassed 56,450 Sun-like stars — meaning they only looked at stars whose surface temperature and brightness were similar to the Sun’s.
They also ruled out potential sources of error, such as cosmic radiation, passing asteroids or comets. The team detected 2,889 superflares on 2,527 stars — an average of one superflare per century.
“We were very surprised that Sun-like stars are prone to such frequent superflares," Valeriy Vasilyev a co-author from the MPS said in a press release.
Earlier studies by other groups determined that superflares occurred every 1,000 — or even every 10,000 — years. But those studies looked at a more limited number of stars.
Read More: Our Sun Is Capable of Producing Dangerous ‘Superflares’, New Study Says
However, physical evidence of superflares impacting Earth points to bigger gaps than the average this study calculated. Violent solar storms impacting Earth leave behind signatures from a variety of radioactive atoms. These atoms are archived in tree rings and glacial ice. Scientists can detect these atoms even thousands of years after their influx.
Using this method, researchers have identified five extreme solar particle events and three candidates within the past 12,000 years — an average of once per 1,500 years, with the most violent occurring in A.D. 775. (Redditor: these are so-called Mitake Events, Extreme Superflares, we'll discuss separately.)
However, it’s possible that not all superflares emit the same types and amounts of radioactive particles. If that’s the case, the number of events impacting Earth may be under-counted. And whatever the frequency, superflares are hard to predict. New space-based instruments are being developed to help forecast these solar storms.
Our writers at Discovermagazine.com use peer-reviewed studies and high-quality sources for our articles, and our editors review for scientific accuracy and editorial standards. Review the sources used below for this article:
Meet the Author Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in newspapers, but switched to scientific magazines. His work has appeared in publications including Science News, Science, Nature, and Scientific American.
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Redditor commentary: We may have already experienced the next superflare of the century since 1859...in 2012. It was a farside event, not Earth facing. We'll post separately about this.
Anyone interested in human energy should watch this video about how the body metabolizes electrons, aka energy/ Qi
"The Mitochondria Doctor"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xlmaorRY0w
Inside our body, we circulate different frequencies of energy, or what we call different "types of Qi". Somtimes this is an old understanding of body functions, like "upward moving, downward moving."
Other times it refers to our transformation from mundane bioelectricity and electron quantity in our cells to high frequencies of energy through the alchemical process of refining jing, qi and spirit.
Kellii drums on track 3 of this new record
"The People United Will Never Be Defeated" in a duet with Matthias Bossi from Ridiculon / Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Its a protest album of drums-only with recent chants.
Yes! This has taken me over a year of constant effort to get to this point, please check it out.
We're launching a red vinyl record variant, CD, T-shirts...
Its a protest album made by punk rock drummers, with studio-recorded drum duets, along with recent protest chants.
We're halfway to goal and would appreciate anyone checking it out. The drummers are from big alt rock and indie rock bands, the recordings are amazing, and profits go to the ACLU to defend democracy (while we still can).
Front cover art is by Abe Brennan (Dead Pioneers, back cover u/pogzart Instagram)
Zero AI is used is the album.
Side A
1 We Will Be Victorious, Resistance is Glorious
with Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Bowie, SNL)
2 No Ice, No KKK, No Fascist USA
with Erik Eldenius (Billy Idol, Dave Navarro)
3 The People United Will Never Be Defeated
with Kellii Scott (Failure, Veruca Salt) and Matthias Bossi (SGM, Ridiculon) *
4 Tax the Rich!
with Jason Gerken (Shiner, Molly McGuire, HUM)
5 This is What Democracy Looks Like
with Chris Enriquez (Spotlights, Julie Christmas)
Side B
6 No Kings, No Tyrants! We Will Not Be Silent
with Greg Saunier (Deerhoof, Big Walnuts Yonder) *
7 Hands Off Our Democracy
with Blake Fleming (The Mars Volta, Dazzling Killmen)
8 Stand Up Fight Back
with Kliph Scurlock (Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys) *
9 Its Time to Fight
with Noah Leger (FACS, Electric Hawk) *
10 Disruptor
with Ian Prince (Birdhands, sisters)
*with Matthias Bossi (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Skeleton Key)
We're launching a red vinyl record
Its a protest album made by rock drummers, with studio-recorded drum duets, along with recent protest chants.
We're halfway to goal and would appreciate anyone checking it out. The drummers are from big alt rock and indie rock bands, the recordings are amazing, and profits go to the ACLU to defend democracy (while we still can).
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! Wow, 12,000 people. We really appreciate you joining this sub.
HELIO (SUN) + BIOLOGY (YOU)
Thank you for being here and sharing this interest. Heliobiology is a somewhat new branch of science, although its roots (and name) can be traced back 100 years. The highest-quality research is in recent decades. Here we are focused on the DATA and new SCIENCE to try and understand how this mechanism works; how exactly is human health affected at ground level by various types of space weather?
Heliobiology acts as a bridge between the physical sciences, like heliophysics and space weather, and biological disciplines like chronobiology and magnetobiology, to unravel the complex relationship between the Sun, Earth's environment, and all living organisms. We may not often see the term used, but the research also spans various disciplines and topics including:
• Heliophysics: This field focuses on the Sun-Solar System connection, exploring the Sun's effects on Earth and other bodies within the Solar System. Heliophysics forms the foundation for understanding the forces driving events like solar flares and geomagnetic storms, which heliobiology then connects to biological systems.
• Magnetobiology: This branch specifically investigates the effects of magnetic fields, including the Earth's geomagnetic field and its variations, on biological organisms. Heliobiology heavily relies on the findings of magnetobiology to understand the potential mechanisms by which solar and geomagnetic activity might impact living systems.
• Chronobiology: This field focuses on the study of biological rhythms and the temporal organization of living organisms. Heliobiology examines how solar and geomagnetic cycles, such as the 11-year solar cycle, might influence and synchronize with these biological rhythms.
Modern science is just beginning to understand the magnetic connection between the sun and Earth.
Short answer: OF COURSE the incredibly massive sun is magnetically connected to the planets of this solar system, and that interconnection affects all life. You are an electromagnetic being on an electromagnetic planet. The sun’s energy permeates everything in this solar system.
You could fit 1.3 million Earths inside the sun, never mind its corona. The Sun’s corona does not have a sharp physical boundary; instead, it gradually thins out as it transforms into the solar wind. While the most intense, visible part of the corona typically extends 1 to 3 million kilometers (1.8m miles) from the solar surface, its functional reach is much greater. The sun is 93 million miles from Earth.
The technical "edge" of the corona is defined by the Alfvén critical surface. This is the point where the Sun’s gravity and magnetic fields lose their grip on the solar plasma, allowing it to accelerate and escape into space. Data from the Parker Solar Probe indicates that this boundary is not a perfect circle but a turbulent, shifting region located approximately 13 to 19 million kilometers (roughly 18 to 27 solar radii) from the surface. Beyond this threshold, the corona ceases to be a static atmosphere and becomes the solar wind, eventually stretching to the very edge of the solar system.
As the Sun rotates, it exhales a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind, which drags the Sun's magnetic field lines outward into the solar system. This creates the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF)—an invisible, physical tether that links the Sun’s atmosphere directly to the magnetic environments of the planets. This is called the Parker Spiral.
SPACE WEATHER: This discipline focuses on the changing conditions in space, including solar activity and its effects on Earth's space environment and atmosphere. Heliobiology uses space weather data and observations to analyze potential correlations (and causation) between events like solar flares and geomagnetic storms and biological responses.
• Environmental Health: This broader field encompasses the study of environmental factors affecting human health. Heliobiology contributes to this field by investigating the role of space weather as an environmental stressor impacting human health and disease patterns, particularly cardiovascular and neurological systems.
• Meteobiology: “Weather sensitivity” is a more commonly known ailment and topic. This field has broadened as research has shown that humans are affected by environmental factors more widely than previously known including the Schumann Resonant energy we are immersed within daily.
It is complex. A giant sunspot can release a weak or no CME (coronal mass ejection) or vice versa. And the effects at Earth largely depend on how Earth’s electromagnetic (EM) field responds. When the field is positively-charged, aka Northward Bz, then the atmosphere is shielded even during very strong solar events. When the field is negatively-charged, or Southward Bz, the atmosphere allows more energy in, even during minor events or “sub-storms” that may not appear on the current charts. We are here today because we are generally shielded by Earth’s EM field from most adverse effects. You can follow daily space weather from NOAA here:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard or I’ll do it for you.
And we recommend following r/SolarMax for deep analysis of changing conditions by our pal u/armchairanalyst86.
SOLAR MAXIMUM (and beyond): We have one more year of elevated activity in this solar cycle and often big events happen as the cycle winds down. But be aware that there are adverse health effects during solar minimum as well. And in fact, the increased cosmic rays from outside our solar system can reach Earth and its biosphere when solar activity is lower and Earth’s EM field is diminished. We will discuss this as it unfolds in 2027 and beyond. Days of lowest activity, measured as KP1 or zero, can also be very uncomfortable for solar-sensitive people. You can follow hourly conditions from the newer, high-resolution HP chart here: https://kp.gfz.de/en/hp30-hp60
"EARTH-DIRECTED": We are affected by a very wide range of different space weather. It is not only Earth-directed sunspots pointing right at Earth releasing a CME and enveloping the planet’s magnetic field in plasma and particles. The sun is connected to Earth through magnetic field lines that can deliver particles rapidly into the atmosphere. Events on the edges, or limbs, of the sun can still cause health effects, More-sensitive people may even experience symptoms from events on the poles or far side.
PERSONAL / SYMPTOMS: I feel the effects of space weather almost daily. In my experience, it is those of use with preexisting conditions of neurological disease (MS) or difference (autism), or cardiovascular risk, that cause the hypersensitivity required to physically feel these effects. Multiple past studies have estimated 10 - 15% of the population can feel the effects of space weather. That number correlates with the number of people with neurological disease, neurodiversity, and some with severe cardiac or stroke risk.
DON’T WORRY. The majority of people are not affected and not sensitive enough to feel effects at all. Even if you are affected, you can stay healthy and develop good habits to get extra rest and relaxation, and "wait out" a few days of strong weather.
I have followed the topic of space weather since the charts became available from NASA. I am autistic and my hypersensitivity spiked in 2019 at the beginning of this solar cycle, leading me eventually to chart my daily symptoms and carefully observe the solar weather. I saw far too many coincidental correlations and eventually after a couple of years, I realized it is causation. I have a decent grasp on how space weather reaches ground level through the global electric circuit to effect biology.
During geomagnetic disturbance, elevated solar wind over 500 kps (kilometers per second!), or other space weather events, you may have increased experience of:
• Tinnitus (ears / nervous system ringing)
• Insomnia, sleep disruption or “energized dreams”
• anxiety (general unease and discomfort)
• pain, tightness or bodily discomfort
In general, your personal characteristics can become more “symptomatic” with increased energy. There are well-documented increases in hospital check ins during geomagnetic disturbances (and full moon).
A couple of studies have found remarkable results, including data showing that even during a minor geomagnetic disturbance our blood viscosity can increase by up to 20%. WHAT?! That got me hooked. Clearly, there is something significant here. I am excited to watch this topic develop as the science advances. Thank you for reading and contributing.
Please share any articles or scientific studies you see on this and related topics, I may miss some!
I recommend the studies pinned at the top of this sub as a starting point for reading about Heliobiology and answering the basic questions about how this all works. And scroll down through the dozens of past studies posted below in this sub.
🌍 🌞 A fascinating topic that we can learn much more about as the science advances...Thank you for being here.