Posted on 07/02/2017 7:42:33 PM PDT by Lorianne
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The Sun is too close due to man!!!
How much in taxes do I have to pay to keep it away??
We’re all gonna die. News @ 11.
It’s carbon dioxide induced climate change. Didn’t you see “Day After Tomorrow”?
Governments should be planning for famines, taking advantage of the global warming cycle and storing up food and finding technology to go to indoors better, rather wasting time pushing a false story for power and $$$.
It must be from global warming, 0bama hatred, racism and distrust of the environmental elitists. We are doomed.
High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year.
But astronomers have long known that this is not true. The sun does change. Properly-filtered telescopes reveal a fiery disk often speckled with dark sunspots. Sunspots are strongly magnetized, and they crackle with solar flaresmagnetic explosions that illuminate Earth with flashes of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation. The sun is a seething mass of activity.
Until its not. Every 11 years or so, sunspots fade away, bringing a period of relative calm.
This is called solar minimum, says Dean Pesnell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. And its a regular part of the sunspot cycle.
The sun is heading toward solar minimum now. Sunspot counts were relatively high in 2014, and now they are sliding toward a low point expected in 2019-2020.
While intense activity such as sunspots and solar flares subside during solar minimum, that doesnt mean the sun becomes dull. Solar activity simply changes form.
For instance, says Pesnell, during solar minimum we can see the development of long-lived coronal holes.
Coronal holes are vast regions in the suns atmosphere where the suns magnetic field opens up and allows streams of solar particles to escape the sun as the fast solar wind.
Pesnell says We see these holes throughout the solar cycle, but during solar minimum, they can last for a long time - six months or more. Streams of solar wind flowing from coronal holes can cause space weather effects near Earth when they hit Earths magnetic field. These effects can include temporary disturbances of the Earths magnetosphere, called geomagnetic storms, auroras, and disruptions to communications and navigation systems.
During solar minimum, the effects of Earths upper atmosphere on satellites in low Earth orbit changes too.
Normally Earths upper atmosphere is heated and puffed up by ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Satellites in low Earth orbit experience friction as they skim through the outskirts of our atmosphere. This friction creates drag, causing satellites to lose speed over time and eventually fall back to Earth. Drag is a good thing, for space junk; natural and man-made particles floating in orbit around Earth. Drag helps keep low Earth orbit clear of debris.
But during solar minimum, this natural heating mechanism subsides. Earths upper atmosphere cools and, to some degree, can collapse. Without a normal amount of drag, space junk tends to hang around.
There are unique space weather effects that get stronger during solar minimum. For example, the number of galactic cosmic rays that reach Earths upper atmosphere increases during solar minimum. Galactic cosmic rays are high energy particles accelerated toward the solar system by distant supernova explosions and other violent events in the galaxy.
Pesnell says that During solar minimum, the suns magnetic field weakens and provides less shielding from these cosmic rays. This can pose an increased threat to astronauts traveling through space.
Solar minimum brings about many changes to our sun, but less solar activity doesnt make the sun and our space environment any less interesting.
Globalist Warming...
Expect a project as big as the Manhattan Project in Trump's second term
Life becomes cold...brutish and short.
The guy who took the Venus image flew with my cousin on the space shuttle.
Runco was the photog and McMonagle is my cousin on this flight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-54
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Thank you!
High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year.
But astronomers have long known that this is not true. The sun does change. Properly-filtered telescopes reveal a fiery disk often speckled with dark sunspots. Sunspots are strongly magnetized, and they crackle with solar flaresmagnetic explosions that illuminate Earth with flashes of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation. The sun is a seething mass of activity.
Until its not. Every 11 years or so, sunspots fade away, bringing a period of relative calm.
This is called solar minimum, says Dean Pesnell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. And its a regular part of the sunspot cycle.
The sun is heading toward solar minimum now. Sunspot counts were relatively high in 2014, and now they are sliding toward a low point expected in 2019-2020.
While intense activity such as sunspots and solar flares subside during solar minimum, that doesnt mean the sun becomes dull. Solar activity simply changes form.
For instance, says Pesnell, during solar minimum we can see the development of long-lived coronal holes.
Coronal holes are vast regions in the suns atmosphere where the suns magnetic field opens up and allows streams of solar particles to escape the sun as the fast solar wind.
Pesnell says We see these holes throughout the solar cycle, but during solar minimum, they can last for a long time - six months or more. Streams of solar wind flowing from coronal holes can cause space weather effects near Earth when they hit Earths magnetic field. These effects can include temporary disturbances of the Earths magnetosphere, called geomagnetic storms, auroras, and disruptions to communications and navigation systems.
During solar minimum, the effects of Earths upper atmosphere on satellites in low Earth orbit changes too.
Normally Earths upper atmosphere is heated and puffed up by ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Satellites in low Earth orbit experience friction as they skim through the outskirts of our atmosphere. This friction creates drag, causing satellites to lose speed over time and eventually fall back to Earth. Drag is a good thing, for space junk; natural and man-made particles floating in orbit around Earth. Drag helps keep low Earth orbit clear of debris.
But during solar minimum, this natural heating mechanism subsides. Earths upper atmosphere cools and, to some degree, can collapse. Without a normal amount of drag, space junk tends to hang around.
There are unique space weather effects that get stronger during solar minimum. For example, the number of galactic cosmic rays that reach Earths upper atmosphere increases during solar minimum. Galactic cosmic rays are high energy particles accelerated toward the solar system by distant supernova explosions and other violent events in the galaxy.
Pesnell says that During solar minimum, the suns magnetic field weakens and provides less shielding from these cosmic rays. This can pose an increased threat to astronauts traveling through space.
Solar minimum brings about many changes to our sun, but less solar activity doesnt make the sun and our space environment any less interesting.
Perhaps a good time to buy tanning booths.
Mmmmm. I’m a displaced mountain boy, and I am looking forward to a nice Alabama snow. Bring it.
Here in Tx my ‘tomater’ plants wouldnt mind a little solar minimum in July and August and neither would I.
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