NOAA SWPC · live space weather

Magnetos

The Sun and Earth’s magnetosphere, right now — field lines that build toward breakthrough.

REPLAY · scripted
WIND
406 km/s
DENS
1.9 p/cc
Bz
-2.1 nT
Kp
1.0
XRAY
B5.0
BUILD
10%

tap to wake the field

Real solar-wind, geomagnetic, and X-ray data drive a living field of light and sound. Conditions are usually quiet — summon a scripted storm to feel the full build toward breakthrough.

The dream lab — Karel Barnoski