Posted on 01/31/2017 4:02:36 AM PST by tired&retired
A large, canyon-shaped hole has opened in the sun's atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind directly toward Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the structure, which stretches more than halfway across the face of the sun:(see pic below)
This is a "coronal hole" (CH)--a region where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows solar wind to escape. NASA's STEREO spacecraft recently sampled the stream flowing from this hole and the velocity was unusually high: nearly 750 km/s. Such a fast-moving stream will likely spark Arctic auroras when it arrives on Feb. 1st.
So are we all gonna die again, or what? Yawn.
... we’re DOOMED!!!
0bama is on vacay at The Sun?
More pretty light shows - and a bit of static here and there.
The damn Russians hacked the sun!
Geomagnetic Storms:
Probabilities for significant disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field are given for three activity levels: active, minor storm, severe storm
Updated at: 2017 Jan 30 2200 UTC
Mid-latitudes
..............0-24 hr......24-48 hr
ACTIVE......45 % ... 45 %
MINOR.......25 % ... 25 %
SEVERE......05 % ... 01 %
High latitudes
...............0-24 hr......24-48 hr
ACTIVE......05 % ... 10 %
MINOR.......25 % ... 25 %
SEVERE......70 % ... 60 %
Ping
Even Sol is tired of Trump’s shit...
/sarc
0bama is on vacay at The Sun?
I’m glad FR warns me about stuff like this. Although it looks like the Northern Lights will be just out of reach. Again.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g1-minor-geomagnetic-storm-watch-issued-31-jan-01-feb
Man made holes in the sun, probably a result of Trumps exec orders.
Some leftist loon is probably already concocting such a story.
ASW!
The liberals told us that man-made global warming would destroy the universe.
Help! The sun is cooling. Lets send it our greenhouse gases.
The Sun is causing Global Warming!
I’m, still, waiting for the NASA photos of Klingons around Uranus.
Maybe some propagation to open up the ham radio bands.
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