Around the world, astronomers are monitoring a massive prominence curling over the sun’s northeastern limb.

David Wilson of Inverness, Scotland, calls it “The Beast”:

This is being reported by Spaceweather:

“This is 3 hours of the giant prominence as seen from my backyard solar observatory,” says Wilson. “It looks to me like some huge 4-legged beast shuffling along.”

Prominences are clouds of hydrogen held above the surface of the sun by magnetic fields. The shuffling of the Beast is a sign of magnetic instability, and may herald a collapse or magnificent eruption. Photo-op, anyone? Monitoring is encouraged on July 13th.

Here is another amazing image..

SOLAR HAM relaying this:

An enhanced solar wind stream is moving past Earth and active (Kp4) geomagnetic conditions has been observed. A minor (G1) geomagnetic storm watch is in effect until 18:00 UTC (July 11). The onset of a coronal hole stream was not expected until within the next few days, so it is unclear if this is related to the coronal hole or perhaps a weak transient passing Earth as the solar wind speed jumped from 330 km/s to above 400 km/s. Further updates will be provided whenever necessary.

Here is the latest moving imagery of the sun from NASA..

Ben Davidson of Space Weather News issued a warning on X overnight about an Earth-facing coronal hole that could eject fast-moving solar wind toward Earth, potentially triggering elevated geomagnetic activity, including auroras and geomagnetic storms. The high-speed stream is expected to reach Earth within days… DEVELOPING..