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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: conservativeharleyguy

Sadly, your comment wasn’t sarcastic. :-(


81 posted on 07/26/2010 12:12:28 PM PDT by wbill
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To: agere_contra; Cyber Liberty

82 posted on 07/26/2010 12:16:36 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
Heh. Now THAT'S comedy! Along with a certain book that came out around that time, Citizen Clinton, by a great author!
83 posted on 07/26/2010 12:21:54 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Hey, thanks! I didn’t know anybody still remembered that ol’ chestnut!


84 posted on 07/26/2010 12:23:50 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: 21twelve

You might be thinking of the 90’s Outer Limits ep- “Inconstant Moon” based on a short story of the same name by Larry Niven.

In this show, the professor (Michael Gross) deduces that the extremely bright moon means that the Sun has gone nova, and the daylight side of Earth has been wiped out. Believing the end is near, he marries his formerly-unapproachable love; then realizing the event may only have been intense solar flare, they prepare for survival as the sun begins to rise.


85 posted on 07/26/2010 12:31:26 PM PDT by mikrofon (SciFi BUMP)
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To: TaraP; Titan Magroyne
*EotW ping*
86 posted on 07/26/2010 12:33:10 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: TaraP
uh OH !
87 posted on 07/26/2010 12:35:05 PM PDT by timestax (Drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff!)
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To: agere_contra
"the only survivors of a world-ending flare would be the Obamas and a crop of sycophantic White House journalists."

for a brief period until the GPS satellite system and AF One's electronics and control system were fried by the EMP and AF One went spiraling into a fiery crash. That would make a fitting end to the sycophantic White House "journalists".

88 posted on 07/26/2010 12:54:58 PM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Impeach Zerobama and his band of Commie Czars)
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To: 21twelve

Kinda like the ending of Jeff Wayne’s war of the worlds where you hear this person calling Houston and no response after you hear the Martian’s creepy sound.


89 posted on 07/26/2010 2:25:15 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USAis no civility in)
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To: fanfan; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Thanks fanfan!
a pair of active regions approaching single file
 
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90 posted on 07/26/2010 6:54:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: dead; Lazamataz
Why does a *woman* feel the need to drop a potato down the front of her panties?

(Yeah, it's a softball question.)

Laz?

91 posted on 07/26/2010 7:04:32 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Never heard of Mister Potato Head?


92 posted on 07/26/2010 7:06:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv

Its bright, bright, brighter than a thousand suns!


93 posted on 07/26/2010 7:16:46 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Good night. I expect more respect tomorrow - Danny H (RIP))
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To: SunkenCiv
So, for us Liberal Arts Majors, why is the title so ominous when we're just talking about solar activity. Is it some unheard of solar activity?
94 posted on 07/26/2010 8:17:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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To: Mr. K
Is this Bush’s fault too?

Yes - everything is...

95 posted on 07/26/2010 8:20:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (..Liberalism is Intolerance..- - Freeper Eric in the Ozarks)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, technically, since there’s a near-vacuum, we’ve never heard *any* solar activity. /rimshot


96 posted on 07/26/2010 8:57:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: BenLurkin

The title is ominous only because the Sun maintains the energy potential to flare up and wipe out the solar system at any moment, even though what appears to be “bright” at the moment may be nothing more than an ordinary sunspot.

The Sword of Damoclese hangs above us all, though it never seems to drop.


97 posted on 07/26/2010 11:57:41 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

— Thomas Jefferson


98 posted on 07/27/2010 12:01:52 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (I don't believe in atheists. And nihilists are nothing to me.)
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To: KevinDavis

*ping*


99 posted on 07/27/2010 2:31:52 AM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Nervous Tick
That’s why we have that spacecraft at the sun, silly.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about the Solar Rover we sent up there. Clinton administration, right?

100 posted on 07/27/2010 6:43:08 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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