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Solar wind
speed:592.1 km/sec
density:0.56 protons/cm3
more data:ACE,DSCOVR
Updated: Today at 0912 UT
X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max: B9
0452 UT Feb17
24-hr: C1
1306 UT Feb16
explanation |more data
Updated: Today at: 0915 UT
Daily Sun: 17 Feb 26
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New sunspot 4377 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy forM-class solar flares. Credit: NASA/SDO

Sunspot number: 69
What is the sunspot number?
Updated 17 Feb 2026
Current Auroral Oval:
Switch to:Europe,USA,New Zealand,Antarctica
Credit: NOAA/Ovation
Planetary K-index
Now:Kp=
24-hr max: Kp= 6.00

explanation |more data
Interplanetary Mag. Field
Btotal:6.16 nT
Bz:-3.22 nTsouth
more data:ACE,DSCOVR
Updated: Today at 0912 UT

Earth is inside a stream of solar wind flowing from the indicated coronal hole. .
Credit: NASA/SDO |more data

Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 0 days
2026 total: 0 days (0%)
2025 total: 0 days (0%)
2024 total: 0 days (0%)
2023 total: 0 days (0%)
2022 total: 1 day (<1%)
2021 total: 64 days (18%)
2020 total: 208 days (57%)
2019 total: 281 days (77%)
2018 total: 221 days (61%)
2017 total: 104 days (28%)
2016 total: 32 days (9%)
2015 total: 0 days (0%)
2014 total: 1 day (<1%)
2013 total: 0 days (0%)
2012 total: 0 days (0%)
2011 total: 2 days (<1%)
2010 total: 51 days (14%)
2009 total: 260 days (71%)
2008 total: 268 days (73%)
2007 total: 152 days (42%)
2006 total: 70 days (19%)

Updated 16 Feb 2026


Thermosphere Climate Index
today: 21.26x1010W
Max: 49.4
x1010W(10/1957)
Min: 2.05
x1010 W(02/2009)
explanation |more data:gfx,txt
Updated 15 Feb 2026

The Radio Sun
10.7 cm flux: 117sfu
explanation |more data
Updated 15 Feb 2026

Cosmic RaysSolar Cycle 25 is near its peak, and this is reflected in the number of cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere. Neutron counts from the University of Oulu's Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory show that cosmic rays reaching Earth are slowly declining--a result of the yin-yang relationship between the solar cycle and cosmic rays.

Oulu Neutron Counts

Percentages of the Space Age average:
today: -8.0%
48-hr change: +0.7%
Max: +11.7%
(12/2009)
Min: -32.1%(06/1991)
explanation |more data
Updated 15 Feb 2026 @ 0700 UT


SPACE WEATHER
NOAA Forecasts
Updated at: 2026 Feb 16 2200 UTC
FLARE
0-24 hr
24-48 hr
CLASS M
10%
10%
CLASS X
01%
01%
Geomagnetic Storms:
Probabilities for significant disturbances in Earth's magnetic field are given for three activity levels:active,minor storm,severe storm
Updated at: 2026 Feb 16 2200 UTC
Mid-latitudes
0-24 hr
24-48 hr
ACTIVE
40%
40%
MINOR
20%
15%
SEVERE
05%
01%
High latitudes
0-24 hr
24-48 hr
ACTIVE
10%
10%
MINOR
30%
30%
SEVERE
55%
55%
 
Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026
What's up in space
    
 

This is an AI Free Zone: Text created by Large Language Models is spreading across the Internet. It's well-written, but frequently inaccurate. If you find a mistake on Spaceweather.com, rest assured it was made by a real human being.

 

OnFeb. 18th, the crescent Moon will pass directly in front of Mercury, occulting the planet for observers ina narrow path acrossparts of North America. In the southern U.S. and Mexico, Mercury will blink out behind the Moon's dark edge at dusk, while elsewhere the pair will appear in an exceptionally tight twilight conjunction. Look west after sunset on Wednesday!

A rare solar eclipse in Antarctica is only hours away. The action begins on Feb. 17th at 11:45 UTC when the New Moon passes straight across the solar disk, producing a "ring of fire" over the frozen continent.


Credit:Atlas of Solar Eclipses 2020 to 2045 by Michael Zeiler and Michael Bakich.

This is not a total eclipse. It is annular, which means the Moon is slightly too small to cover the entire sun. Maximum coverage will be 96%. Two research stations lie inside the path of annularity: The European Space Agency’s Concordia Research Station and Russia’s Mirny Station. America's primary base, McMurdo Station, will see an 86% partial eclipse. All three are occupied this time of year.

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 All Sky Fireball Network
Every night, a network ofNASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics. Daily results are presented here on Spaceweather.com.

On Feb. 14 2026, the network reported 4 fireballs.

In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point--Earth. The orbits arecolor-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue).[Larger image] [movies]

 Near Earth Asteroids
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are findingnew ones all the time.
On February 17, 2026 there were2349 potentially hazardous asteroids.
Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Velocity (km/s)
Diameter (m)
2026-Feb-11
0.4 LD
12.4
3
2026-Feb-11
20 LD
9.2
7
2026-Feb-11
15.6 LD
6.5
21
2026-Feb-12
4.5 LD
10.8
11
2026-Feb-12
5.1 LD
7.2
16
2026-Feb-12
10 LD
11.2
35
2026-Feb-12
3.7 LD
18.4
14
2026-Feb-12
13.8 LD
10.3
23
2026-Feb-12
15.4 LD
5
18
2026-Feb-12
11.2 LD
7
23
2026-Feb-12
4.7 LD
11.3
10
2026-Feb-13
6.4 LD
8.4
27
2026-Feb-13
10.3 LD
5.3
26
2026-Feb-14
3.1 LD
7.7
20
2026-Feb-14
10.5 LD
2.7
59
2026-Feb-14
17 LD
19.2
626
2026-Feb-14
19.5 LD
10.2
56
2026-Feb-15
11.7 LD
8.1
15
2026-Feb-15
0.7 LD
5.4
3
2026-Feb-16
7.7 LD
10.5
223
2026-Feb-17
0.4 LD
5.6
3
2026-Feb-17
17.4 LD
6.1
33
2026-Feb-18
5.4 LD
8
25
2026-Feb-19
11 LD
8.8
35
2026-Feb-20
12.2 LD
6.3
66
2026-Feb-20
4.5 LD
7.5
27
2026-Feb-20
11.3 LD
7.3
81
2026-Feb-21
15.4 LD
9.5
132
2026-Feb-21
4.2 LD
11.4
22
2026-Feb-21
3 LD
6.8
4
2026-Feb-21
9 LD
8.8
65
2026-Feb-22
8.6 LD
20.6
33
2026-Feb-22
17.4 LD
3.1
32
2026-Feb-23
13.8 LD
7.2
24
2026-Feb-23
14.6 LD
8.6
27
2026-Feb-23
16.3 LD
4
98
2026-Feb-23
13.3 LD
6.4
34
2026-Feb-24
11.6 LD
6.9
73
2026-Feb-24
8.3 LD
7.9
9
2026-Feb-26
3.2 LD
8.4
44
2026-Feb-27
13.4 LD
4.5
12
2026-Feb-27
16.3 LD
8.7
30
2026-Feb-28
10 LD
9.9
32
2026-Mar-02
15.8 LD
16.5
39
2026-Mar-03
13.9 LD
8.9
34
2026-Mar-03
6.4 LD
10.8
57
2026-Mar-06
6.3 LD
4
14
2026-Mar-06
19.9 LD
7.2
61
2026-Mar-08
13.4 LD
16
43
2026-Mar-09
16.1 LD
1.3
8
2026-Mar-10
14.7 LD
10
55
2026-Mar-10
14.2 LD
4.1
18
2026-Mar-11
7.8 LD
12.7
3
2026-Mar-11
4.1 LD
1.7
12
2026-Mar-11
9.4 LD
9.1
27
2026-Mar-15
4.5 LD
7.8
44
2026-Mar-17
19.6 LD
9
75
2026-Mar-17
2.7 LD
3.1
6
2026-Mar-18
18.2 LD
7.2
9
2026-Mar-22
4.7 LD
9.9
68
2026-Mar-24
10.1 LD
6.5
9
2026-Mar-25
18.8 LD
11
12
2026-Apr-03
9.8 LD
6.4
5
2026-Apr-03
9.6 LD
10.1
13
2026-Apr-04
2.6 LD
7.2
50
2026-Apr-06
5.8 LD
7
14
2026-Apr-07
4.9 LD
7.5
5
2026-Apr-07
13.4 LD
9.2
162
2026-Apr-10
12 LD
9.2
15
2026-Apr-12
16.8 LD
8.7
15
2026-Apr-14
0.7 LD
7.4
20
Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU.
 Cosmic Rays in the Atmosphere

Almost once a week, Spaceweather.com and the students ofEarth to Sky Calculus fly space weather balloons to the stratosphere over California. These balloons are equipped with sensors that detect secondary cosmic rays, a form of radiation from space that can penetrate all the way down to Earth's surface. Our monitoring program has been underway without interruption for 10 years, resulting in a unique dataset ofin situ atmospheric measurements.

Latest results (Nov. 2024): Atmospheric radiation is sharply decreasing in 2024. Our latest measurements in November registered a 10-year low:

What's going on? Ironically, the radiation drop is caused by increasing solar activity. Solar Cycle 25 hasroared to life faster than forecasters expected. The sun's strengthening and increasingly tangled magnetic field repels cosmic rays from deep space. In addition, solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) sweep aside cosmic rays, causing sharp reductions called "Forbush Decreases." The two effects blend together to bring daily radiation levels down.

.Who cares? Cosmic rays are a surprisingly "down to Earth" form of space weather. They can alter the chemistry of the atmosphere,trigger lightning, andpenetrate commercial airplanes. According toa study from the Harvard T.H. Chan school of public health, crews of aircraft have higher rates of cancer than the general population. The researchers listedcosmic rays, irregular sleep habits, and chemical contaminants as leading risk factors. A number of controversial studies (#1,#2,#3,#4) go even further, linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.

Technical notes:The radiation sensors onboard our helium balloons detect X-rays and gamma-rays in the energy range 10 keV to 20 MeV.These energies span the range of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners.

Data points in the graph labeled "Stratospheric Radiation" correspond to the peak of theRegener-Pfotzer maximum, which lies about 67,000 feet above central California. When cosmic rays crash into Earth's atmosphere, they produce a spray of secondary particles that is most intense at the entrance to the stratosphere. Physicists Eric Regener and Georg Pfotzer discovered the maximum using balloons in the 1930s and it iswhat we are measuring today.

 Essential web links
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
 The official U.S. government space weather bureau
Atmospheric Optics
 The first place to look for information about sundogs, pillars, rainbows and related phenomena.
Solar Dynamics Observatory
 Researchers call it a "Hubble for the sun." SDO is the most advanced solar observatory ever.
STEREO
 3D views of the sun from NASA's Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
 Realtime and archival images of the Sun from SOHO.
SolarMonitor.org
 information about sunspots based on the latest NOAA/USAF Active Region Summary
Starlink Satellite Statistics
 current counts of failed and deployed Starlink satellites from Jonathan's Space Page. See also,all satellite statistics.
The Aerospace Corporation
 Authoritative predictions of space junk and satellite re-entries
Daily Sunspot Summaries
 from the NOAA Space Environment Center
NOAA 27-Day Space Weather Forecasts
 fun to read, but should be taken with a grain of salt! Forecasts looking ahead more than a few days are often wrong.
Aurora 30 min forecast
 from the NOAA Space Environment Center
Live Aurora Webcam
 from Lights over Lapland
Heliophysics
 the underlying science of space weather

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Back by popular demand:

today: m=10.0 (Feb 17)
yesterday: m=10.2

AAVSO data:#1,#2.

Explanation: When the nova explodes, the visual magnitude of the star will jump from +10 (invisible to the naked eye) to +2 (about as bright as the North Star).

A 2026 Prediction: Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory predicts the nova will occur near June 25, 2026, based on periodicities observed in previous eruptions. [more]



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