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Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth
http://beforeitsnews.com ^ | July 26th, 2010 | freepressinternational.com

Posted on 07/26/2010 10:10:08 AM PDT by TaraP

OVER THE HORIZON: Something bright and active on the far side of the sun is about to turn toward Earth. Magnetic loops towering over the eastern limb herald its approach:

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture during the early hours of July 26th. The bright glow revealed by SDO's extreme ultraviolet camera comes from million-degree plasma trapped by overlying magnetic fields. A sunspot is likely at the bottom of it all.

Or maybe two sunspots... NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft is stationed over the sun's eastern limb, and it sees a pair of active regions approaching single file. The one peeking over the limb now is actually the smaller of the two. Readers with solar telescopes should train their optics here.


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KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; solaractivity; sunspots
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To: TaraP

The sun is just an ordinary star. Like the bright little dots that twinkle at night. How powerful can THEY be?


21 posted on 07/26/2010 10:16:44 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: TaraP

11th Imam? /sarc


22 posted on 07/26/2010 10:16:53 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: agere_contra
this post destroyed by solar radiation
23 posted on 07/26/2010 10:16:59 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: TaraP
Something bright and active on the far side of the sun

What is it?

24 posted on 07/26/2010 10:17:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: edcoil
Doesn’t it take 8 minutes from the light of the sun to get to earth so if we see it, it should be here in 8 minutes.

I'm not following your logic there.

25 posted on 07/26/2010 10:17:21 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: TaraP

A sunspot? Isn’t that good for radio?


26 posted on 07/26/2010 10:17:43 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: silverleaf
Go rent or buy the 2009 movie Knowing starring Nicolas Cage..........
27 posted on 07/26/2010 10:18:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: DannyTN

Better plant heat tolerant types..............


28 posted on 07/26/2010 10:18:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: edcoil

That’s light. Particles travel a bit slower................


29 posted on 07/26/2010 10:19:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: edcoil

> Doesn’t it take 8 minutes from the light of the sun to get to earth so if we see it, it should be here in 8 minutes.

That’s why we have that spacecraft at the sun, silly.

It sees the sun’s acid reflux attack first, and then beams the picture back to us on radio waves!

...oh wait...


30 posted on 07/26/2010 10:19:56 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: swain_forkbeard

Some of those “little” stars would fill the orbit of Mars.................


31 posted on 07/26/2010 10:20:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: Red Badger

That’s right. About 400 km/s, or a million miles an hour.


32 posted on 07/26/2010 10:21:27 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: TaraP

If this adds a few degrees to the temp, they will blame it on global warming.


33 posted on 07/26/2010 10:23:03 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (leftism: uncurable mental deterioration)
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To: agere_contra

Which means the solar wind has about a 41 hours flight time to earth.

If there was e.g. a solar flare that was going to destroy all life: we’d have ~ 40 hours warning of the oncoming proton shock.


34 posted on 07/26/2010 10:25:40 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: dead
It's good to remember that if you're shooting at the sun. Make sure and lead it by eight minutes. (Actually, if you want to bounce radar signals off the sun, it pays to aim where you think it's going to be in about 500 seconds and wait for an echo in the same direction in about 1000 seconds, even though the sun will have already moved past that location.

The sun takes about 27 days to rotate on it's axis. Any information we get about the sun is at least 500 seconds old. Space borne sensors can't get the information here any sooner, no matter what. We can see this storm cloud over the solar horizon and know that in a day or two, when the sun rotates a little further, it will be pointing at us, with whatever perils or curiosities that entails.

35 posted on 07/26/2010 10:29:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: agere_contra
40 hours warning of the oncoming proton shock

Plenty of time to blame the Tea Party movement for racist proton emanations.
36 posted on 07/26/2010 10:31:53 AM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: silverleaf
I just hope that we are on the dark side of the earth at night when it does happen.

37 posted on 07/26/2010 10:32:30 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USAis no civility in)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It's good to remember that if you're shooting at the sun.

LOL. What's the bag-limit on Suns?

What if I run over a Sun with my car? Can I just stick it on the roof-rack?

38 posted on 07/26/2010 10:32:48 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: TaraP

Tonight—hot, hot, hot & fair to partly zombies.


39 posted on 07/26/2010 10:33:00 AM PDT by tumblindice (our new, happy lives)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I know all that and still miss the logic of the post.

One fact doesn't follow from the other, unless the effects of this outburst are traveling exactly half the speed of light from this outburst.

40 posted on 07/26/2010 10:33:49 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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