Posted on 02/10/2023 3:06:16 AM PST by EBH
For all that the Sun is a ubiquitous and vital part of our lives, a lot about it remains baffling. And now it's done something decidedly peculiar.
Material from a filament of plasma erupting from the Sun's surface broke away and appeared to form a crown-like vortex over the solar north pole.
Further analysis will be required to determine whether or not this is what actually occurred.
For now, scientists are saying that they've not quite seen anything like it – and the footage itself is undoubtedly spectacular.
olar shenanigans are not entirely unexpected currently. Our star is ramping up its activity, getting rowdier with sunspot and flare activity. It has flared every day this year so far, and it spat out several X-class and M-class flares in January 2023, the biggest and second-biggest eruptions the Sun is capable of.
This is nothing to be alarmed about. The Sun undergoes activity cycles every 11 or so years, from relatively quiet and peaceful, to absolutely rambunctious.
These cycles coincide with fluctuations in the solar magnetic field. When the magnetic field is at its weakest at the poles, the Sun's magnetic poles switch places, and the polarity of the magnetic field reverses. This is when the Sun is at its most active, known as solar maximum.
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I’m waiting for someone to tell me how my SUV caused all this.
I think it’s a flare that is occuring at a high enough latitude that we see it’s filaments being drawn into a circular pattern but I doubt it is anything truly meaningful. It is more event of angular optics and vectors. May look spectacular but ultimately will mean nothing.
Or some angel is pouring his vial upon the sun.....
Mr. Sunny listening to Devo.
Oh,no ... a Solar Vortex!
All caused by global warming. Stop driving SUVs or you’ll destroy the sun!
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This is just the beginning. Of the End.
This must be bombogenisis.
Alert the hysterics at Weather Channel.
The “wolf” cry on behalf of global warming/cooling/heating/simmering whatever, has now been heightened to “this time it’s for real”
An unnamed source from the Biden administration released a statement claiming the sun released 3 previously undetected vortexes during the Trump administration.
“Broken off”? Hyperbole much?
What about the solar polar bears?
We earthlings have the polar vortex, our sun has the solar vortex.
Russian disinformation.
Carrington Event electrocuted telegraph operators and set fires. Gotta wonder what that level of EMP would do today. Imagine everyone's cell phone frying at once. Mayhem due to the reliance on them and/or addiction to them.
Vortexial precession often results in negative ionic annotation
However, we need not be concerned unless the durational complexity exceeds say 40 days
Does this mean “the walls are closing in”…?
How dare it!
Before the political advantages of climate change were realized, solar cycles were known to affect the Earth’s weather and climate. Of course, now it is known that food production is what is destroying the climate.
Oh yeah! It’s all that “fossil fuel” everyone is using that’s causing the sun to heat up and split up!
While that did make me chuckle, God’s got it under control.
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