Posted on 06/05/2019 7:25:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Eruptions from the face of our star are called ‘prominences’ and cause vast amounts of superhot gas to shoot into space, often forming beautiful loops on the solar surface. During the solar minimum, the number of flares and sunspots is dramatically reduced.
When the sun leaps back from its minimum after roughly 11 years, we’re likely to see more and more ferocious explosions on the sun.
Nasa warned: ‘After our Sun passes the current Solar Minimum, solar activity like eruptive prominences are expected to become more common over the next few years.’
The space agency has just released dramatic pictures of a ‘monster’ solar prominence recording by its Solar Dynamic Observatory in 2011, which shows what we should expect to see when the sun’s minimum reaches its end.
Nasa wrote: ‘The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the featured time lapse video covering 90 minutes, where a new frame was taken every 24 seconds. ‘The scale of the prominence is huge – the entire Earth would easily fit under the flowing curtain of hot gas. A solar prominence is channelled and sometimes held above the Sun’s surface by the Sun’s magnetic field.
‘A quiescent prominence typically lasts about a month, and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) expelling hot gas into the Solar System. The energy mechanism that creates a solar prominence is still a topic of research.’
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
Interesting, that.
The upper-Midwest is experiencing one of the coldest and wettest Springs in recent memory.
And my memory reaches back to 1963.
The pinkos in the so-called “news” media have a lock-step agenda.
From the article:
“The most famous Coronal Mass Ejection occurred in 1859 and caused a geomagnetic storm called the ‘Carrington Event’ as a pulse of charged particles bombarded Earth’s magnetosphere.
“If this happened today, the results would be devastating.
“In April, Nasa wrote: ‘The Carrington Event compressed the Earth’s magnetic field so violently that currents were created in telegraph wires so great that many wires sparked and gave telegraph operators shocks.
“‘Were a Carrington-class event to impact the Earth today, speculation holds that damage might occur to global power grids and electronics on a scale never yet experienced.’”
If I understand correctly we have just begun the solar minimum cycle that will last approximately 11 years. So, in 2030, we may be at risk of getting hit by another Carrington-class event that could create havoc with our electric and electronic systems. We’re doomed. We’re so dependent on wireless communication and data transfer, if there was a major disruptive event, then everything on earth could come to a standstill.
I blame the NRA.
Is it time to nuke the sun?
:: Eruptions from the face of our star are called ‘prominences’ ::
Stay away! Unclean! Unclean!
-h/t Leviticus
High 90s yesterday (and probably today) here at the locale of my hovel. But that’s to be expected.
See you on 6m!
Just what exactly is “ominous” about this???????
I'd put money on cooling before I'd bet on warming. We'll know if and when solar activity perks up.
“Be a good time to land there.”
Better to land at night, so it won’t be so hot for the astronauts...
So true. We are likely entering a mini ice age similar to what was going on during the American revolution and not ending til after 1814.
Right now in Atlanta we are having a cool spring.
So AOC was correct - in 12 years globull warming will hit us and destroy the earth.
Gosh darn, that AOC sure is a smart gal.
Looking at the graph the last 3 maximums have been strongly decreasing......the wooly mammoths are coming!
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humidity!
Hey!
You can’t post that without a picture of AOC.
Protocol.
Well, I’ll be darned. Good point!
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