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The sun has ‘reached solar minimum’ and its surface is ominously calm
MetroUK ^ | 06/04/2019

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; maunderminimum; solar; solarminimum; sun; sungraph; sunspots
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting, that.

The upper-Midwest is experiencing one of the coldest and wettest Springs in recent memory.
And my memory reaches back to 1963.


21 posted on 06/05/2019 7:37:12 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (No dolphins were harmed in the making of this post. They enjoyed the rough handling.)
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To: G Larry

The pinkos in the so-called “news” media have a lock-step agenda.


22 posted on 06/05/2019 7:37:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


23 posted on 06/05/2019 7:37:48 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: BenLurkin

I blame the NRA.


24 posted on 06/05/2019 7:38:21 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: BenLurkin

Is it time to nuke the sun?


25 posted on 06/05/2019 7:39:48 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin; Larry Lucido

:: Eruptions from the face of our star are called ‘prominences’ ::

Stay away! Unclean! Unclean!
-h/t Leviticus


26 posted on 06/05/2019 7:39:56 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (No dolphins were harmed in the making of this post. They enjoyed the rough handling.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

High 90s yesterday (and probably today) here at the locale of my hovel. But that’s to be expected.


27 posted on 06/05/2019 7:40:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: econjack

See you on 6m!


28 posted on 06/05/2019 7:41:09 AM PDT by freebird5850 (Trust Republicans Under My Presindency)
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To: tired&retired
Notice how the maximum level of the Solar Max is dropping. This means we may be headed towards another Maunder Minimum situation on the Sun, and that would be a disaster for Earth's agriculture as we have shorter growing seasons worldwide.
29 posted on 06/05/2019 7:41:55 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: BenLurkin

Just what exactly is “ominous” about this???????


30 posted on 06/05/2019 7:43:40 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: DarthVader
As long as I've been watching solar activity (much via FR for 20 years) there has been discussion of low sunspot activity. Me thinks the 11 year cycling was non-existant last time which is why there has been virtually no warming for 18+ years.

I'd put money on cooling before I'd bet on warming. We'll know if and when solar activity perks up.

31 posted on 06/05/2019 7:44:18 AM PDT by chiller (As Davey Crockett once said: Be sure you're right. Then go ahead. I'm goin' ahead.)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Be a good time to land there.”


AOC said that the best time to land is at night.


32 posted on 06/05/2019 7:44:27 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Larry Lucido

Better to land at night, so it won’t be so hot for the astronauts...


33 posted on 06/05/2019 7:48:54 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Sequoyah101

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.


34 posted on 06/05/2019 7:48:57 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: be-baw
If I understand correctly we have just begun the solar minimum cycle that will last approximately 11 years.

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.

35 posted on 06/05/2019 7:48:59 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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Looking at the graph the last 3 maximums have been strongly decreasing......the wooly mammoths are coming!


36 posted on 06/05/2019 7:49:11 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: circlecity

It ain’t the heat, it’s the humidity!


37 posted on 06/05/2019 7:50:23 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger

Hey!

You can’t post that without a picture of AOC.
Protocol.


38 posted on 06/05/2019 7:51:12 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: newfreep

Well, I’ll be darned. Good point!


39 posted on 06/05/2019 7:52:25 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: MrEdd

Scroll down..................


40 posted on 06/05/2019 7:53:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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