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Sun news: Fast solar wind coming and a partial eclipse on equinox eve

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The sun has remained quiet over the past day, producing only faint C-class flares. And, for now, Earth’s magnetic field remains calm, but that’ll likely change soon: a coronal hole high-speed stream (CH HSS) is on its way to Earth. It’ll likely spark geomagnetic storms and auroras late today and tomorrow. And a sky treat today: the moon takes a big bite out of the sun in a deep partial solar eclipse, visible from parts of the far Southern Hemisphere. Even though most of the world won’t see this eclipse directly, we can watch online thanks to TimeandDate.com, starting at 18 UTC (2 p.m. EDT). Eclipses remind us of the dramatic alignments possible in our Earth–moon–sun system: a moment of celestial balance on this eve of the September equinox.