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Watch it yourself

Almost nothing in this argument is hidden. The Sun is photographed continuously, the solar wind is measured on the way in, the magnetic field is mapped by satellite, and the pole position is published by two governments. This page is the link list: when a claim gets made in either direction, this is where to check it rather than reading someone's summary of it.

The instruments

Where the numbers come from.

The same feeds are the input stack for the earthquake work, which needs no new hardware to start.

One line in that stack has nothing behind it

A coronagraph blocks the bright disc so the faint outer atmosphere, and anything leaving it, becomes visible. Nearly every plasma-cloud forecast on Earth still starts from LASCO, aboard a spacecraft launched in 1995 and running decades past its design life. SOLAR-1 reached L1 in January 2026 and was commissioned mid-year, which puts a second coronagraph there for the first time. Vigil, which would watch side-on from 60 degrees behind Earth, is planned for 2031.

Known

The daily programme

Space Weather News.

The frontier side of this argument is a daily programme reading the same public instruments every morning since 2011, which is where the claims get updated, revised and occasionally quietly dropped.

The claims are checkable one at a time against the instruments above, and the numbers page marks which hold.

What these feeds are an input to →  ·  The tests they already make possible →