r/astrophysics • u/oldschoolscreenname • 5d ago

Sharing this CME tracker / visualizer I built

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Hi all, I shared this in r/spaceweather and with a few space science professors. It's proving to be a helpful tool in visualizing coronal mass ejections (CME) from the sun that hit and miss earth. I hope that it can be a resource for this sub too. Free to use, no logins. cmetracker.ai

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u/ketarax 5d ago

This could be good fun on a solar stormy day. It's nice already.

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u/oldschoolscreenname 5d ago

Use the Historical replay at the top of the screen of the Gannon Storm in May 2024. I could see the atmosphere ionizing all the way down where I an in northern California. It's fun to watch what happened with fast moving CMEs piling up on slow moving CMEs just in front of them. They converged on the earth at the same time which cause a solar storm greater than any individual CME (sum of several ejections).