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The Sun is preparing to head into the weekend in much the same faintly smoldering state in which it began the week. Space weather continues to fluctuate between "quietly" and "moderately" disturbed—stubbornly refusing to drop back to the baseline, as it did in September, yet showing no signs of the potential for an upswing.

A preliminary trajectory calculation has emerged for the bright fireball observed in northwestern Russia on the evening of October 21. The celestial body passed through the atmosphere north of Vologda, Yaroslavl, and Cherepovets, and south of Arkhangelsk.

Regional forums and channels in northwestern Russia are featuring videos of a notably bright fireball observed yesterday, October 21, 2026, at approximately 17:50–17:51 Moscow time. Most reports originated from the area around the Rybinsk Reservoir (Cherepovets, Vologda). The fireball traveled to the north of these locations, presumably in the vicinity of Lake Beloye (Beloye Ozero).

A relatively rare event—the passage of the brightest planet, Venus, between the Earth and the Sun—will take place in two days, on Saturday, October 24, 2026.

Geomagnetic indices remain at an elevated level; the magnetosphere is under pressure from a dense, high-speed stream of solar wind originating from another coronal hole on the Sun.

Today, nature offers another chance to head out under the starry sky with a list of wishes and try to tick off at least a few of them—the Orionid meteor shower is reaching its peak.

The Sun remains in a frozen, mildly disturbed state—stubbornly resisting a descent to the absolute bottom, yet simultaneously lacking the energy or strength to see its activity increase.

A short-lived increase in geomagnetic activity, lasting 10–15 hours, is expected tonight, from October 19 to 20. Calculations indicate that the planet will be grazed by a dense stream of solar wind, originating from a large coronal hole currently present on the Sun’s disk.

After a rather stormy start to October and after a strong storm with auroras that occurred last weekend, the Earth has entered its fifth day without geomagnetic disturbances. At the same time, flare activity, contrary to expectations, did not go to zero after burning all the energy from the beginning of the month. There is something smoldering on the Sun, which is not enough for strong explosions, but enough to maintain a fairly noticeable and even increasing rate of flares: yesterday there were 8 of them, and today there are already 7 in the first 12 hours.

The strongest magnetic storm in 3 months is happening on Earth. The storm is registered from approximately 20 o'clock Moscow time. Current score is G3. The last time a magnetic storm of comparable strength was observed was on July 4, 2026.