Today's huge solar eruption


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Just flat spectacular. From http://www.universetoday.com

Early this morning (June 7, 2011) an amazingly massive and spectacular event took place on the Sun; a huge prominence eruption, marked by a solar flare and release of energetic particles. Daniel Pendick from the Geeked on Goddard blog described it as a ?fountain of plasma that blasts out of the solar surface, spreads outward, and collapses to splat back down.?

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Yup, awesome stuff.

Felt about that hot in texas today too.

you're not kidding!!! :sun: = :(

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It's crazy how far into space that stuff shoots out actually and really neat that they're were able to capture that.

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Totally amazing stuff!

Solar Maximum is happening now between 2011 and 2013 as part of Solar Cycle 24.

A solar maximum is the period when the sun?s magnetic field lines are the most distorted due to the magnetic field on the solar equator rotating at a slightly faster pace than at the solar poles. The solar cycle takes an average of about 11 years to go from one solar maximum to the next with an observed variation in duration of 9 to 14 years for any given solar cycle.

Solar Cycle 24 is the present cycle we are in. According to NASA, the intensity of geomagnetic storms during Solar Cycle 24 may be elevated by a large breach in Earth?s magnetic field which was discovered by the THEMIS spacecraft in 2008. A 20-fold increase in particle counts that penetrate the Earth?s magnetic field may be expected.

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Yup, awesome stuff.

Felt about that hot in texas today too.

you're not kidding!!! :sun: = :(

And my AC decided to spring some huge freon leak friday, and wont be repaired till this friday..... Who wants to go to lake travis? :p

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Totally amazing stuff!

Solar Maximum is happening now between 2011 and 2013 as part of Solar Cycle 24.

A solar maximum is the period when the sun?s magnetic field lines are the most distorted due to the magnetic field on the solar equator rotating at a slightly faster pace than at the solar poles. The solar cycle takes an average of about 11 years to go from one solar maximum to the next with an observed variation in duration of 9 to 14 years for any given solar cycle.

Solar Cycle 24 is the present cycle we are in. According to NASA, the intensity of geomagnetic storms during Solar Cycle 24 may be elevated by a large breach in Earth?s magnetic field which was discovered by the THEMIS spacecraft in 2008. A 20-fold increase in particle counts that penetrate the Earth?s magnetic field may be expected.

I'm not saying that you are but this is the stuff which brings forth the doom sayers

I'm just fascinated to see what (if anything) we actually see down here on Earth.

The massive flare in that video, was that directed towards us does anyone know? or is it just sailing off in to space and won't come anywhere near us?

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I'm not saying that you are but this is the stuff which brings forth the doom sayers

I'm just fascinated to see what (if anything) we actually see down here on Earth.

The massive flare in that video, was that directed towards us does anyone know? or is it just sailing off in to space and won't come anywhere near us?

I hear you and you are quite correct inasmuch that I am merely quoting some interesting facts! :)

I am more fascinated by how puny we are in comparison to the power and force of the Sun!

Solar prominences can tower a million or more miles above the Sun's surface before falling back to the Sun

Solar flares heat plasma to tens of millions of degrees Kelvin and accelerate particles to almost the speed of light, while emitting radiation across all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum ? from radio waves to gamma rays.

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The fall back alone cause explosions as big as the Earth.

A little different perspective, a similar eruption here would be larger then our solar system

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That's VY Canis Majoris. The upper limit on its radus would put its edge somewhere outside of Saturn's orbit -.2,100 times the size of the sun. Estimates are there may be stars as large as 2,700 - 2,800 the suns size.

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