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Sun emits huge solar flare, burst of plasma
CBS News ^ | //May 6, 2015, 12:22 PM | /Michael Casey

Posted on 05/06/2015 11:36:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The sun produced its biggest solar flare so far this year, a huge blast that caused temporary radio blackouts throughout the Pacific.

The X-class solar flare - considered the most powerful category of sun storm - erupted Tuesday from a sunspot called Active Region 2339 (AR2339), peaking at 6:11 p.m. EDT (2211 GMT), according to Space.com.

The blast, however, is unlikely to cause major problems back on Earth.

"Given the impulsive nature of this event, as well as the source location on the eastern limb of the sun, we are not expecting a radiation storm at Earth," scientists with the U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado, which is overseen by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, wrote Tuesday evening.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: ar2339; carringtonevent; cme; coronalmassejection; emp; sida; solarflare; sun
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"blackouts throughout the Pacific."

Where?

1 posted on 05/06/2015 11:36:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Somebody please dig out the panicking stick figures saying ‘oh noes’.
2 posted on 05/06/2015 11:37:30 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: BenLurkin

Just the other day, I saw an article here saying that this is the most “spot-free” sun surface we’ve seen in over 50 years, indicating lack of this kind of activity.

I really don’t think anyone knows what they’re talking about anymore.


3 posted on 05/06/2015 11:41:11 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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4 posted on 05/06/2015 11:41:22 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv

/mark


5 posted on 05/06/2015 11:43:31 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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6 posted on 05/06/2015 11:43:39 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: BenLurkin

Coming up at the top of the hour: will this affect supplies of organic Vaseline in Sylmar?


7 posted on 05/06/2015 11:43:57 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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8 posted on 05/06/2015 11:46:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Idaho_Cowboy
Here you go:


9 posted on 05/06/2015 11:47:41 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: fwdude

Just the other day, I saw an article here saying that this is the most “spot-free” sun surface we’ve seen in over 50 years, indicating lack of this kind of activity.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3286455/posts


10 posted on 05/06/2015 11:49:07 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: BenLurkin

I welcome the 1850s!


11 posted on 05/06/2015 11:52:06 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: fwdude

From what I can gather, when the sun is peaking and bottoming out in activity, the sun is rather stable and doesn’t release much solar flare. When the numbers of sunspots are increasing and decreasing, the magnetic variance of the sun is in a flux and thus is much more likely to emit solar flares. The sun is in a decreasing trend right now.


12 posted on 05/06/2015 11:52:59 AM PDT by struggle
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13 posted on 05/06/2015 11:53:04 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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14 posted on 05/06/2015 11:53:42 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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“...the eastern limb of the sun..”

“Eastern” relative to what?


15 posted on 05/06/2015 11:53:58 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: BenLurkin

must be due to global warming


16 posted on 05/06/2015 11:54:01 AM PDT by Londo Molari
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Just the other day, I saw an article here saying that this is the most “spot-free” sun surface we’ve seen in over 50 years, indicating lack of this kind of activity.

Yep. I saw it too. I had the same thought. I think the sun is dying. We likely only have a few milenia left. We should seek a new planet asap.

17 posted on 05/06/2015 11:54:41 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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“Eastern” relative to what?

Relative to the center of course. Duh! (giggles)

18 posted on 05/06/2015 11:55:42 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is truly terrifying news. I can’t decide whether to:

A) Become frozen in fear, unable to move or even blink; or

B) Go in to a blind panic and begin running around in circles at full speed shouting ‘NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO’ at the top of my lungs until I knock myself unconscious by crashing in to a wall or door jamb.

I guess I’ll mull it over a little longer.


19 posted on 05/06/2015 11:58:36 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Londo Molari

Yes. That must be it.

Or, it may be George Bush’s fault...

...or both.


20 posted on 05/06/2015 11:59:56 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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