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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: DarthVader
The solar flare activity has been low for the last several months for the most part.

Maybe ole Mr. Sun is just getting a little burned out.

41 posted on 06/05/2019 7:54:49 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: chiller

We have seen increased activity during winter when we have experienced unseasonably warm weather.


42 posted on 06/05/2019 7:55:14 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: RayChuang88

Well then lets definitely continue fogging the skies with contrails!


43 posted on 06/05/2019 7:58:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Sequoyah101

Exactly...get your crap in order. Baby, it’s going to be cold outside.


44 posted on 06/05/2019 7:59:33 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: Larry Lucido

Perfect!


45 posted on 06/05/2019 8:00:34 AM PDT by karnage
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To: tired&retired

Nice chart. Sucks for globalists.


46 posted on 06/05/2019 8:01:11 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: RayChuang88

Yep


47 posted on 06/05/2019 8:03:45 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: BenLurkin

[The sun has ‘reached solar minimum’ and its surface is ominously calm]

Solar Zen.

Or Solar Chuck Norris Waiting To Pounce.


48 posted on 06/05/2019 8:06:38 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Red Badger

You owe me an iced tea.


49 posted on 06/05/2019 8:08:32 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: BenLurkin

Dr. Valentina Zharkova has created an amazingly accurate model for the sun’s activity. It says we are in for 400 years of cooling. Very interesting reading.


50 posted on 06/05/2019 8:09:54 AM PDT by POWG
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To: BenLurkin

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


51 posted on 06/05/2019 8:11:03 AM PDT by abclily
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Whoa! This sounds like the Sun is responsible for..

..wait for it..

(dramatic reverb on) Climate Change! (dramatic reverb off)

52 posted on 06/05/2019 8:13:26 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: econjack
On the upside of this, I’m an amateur (”ham”) radio operator and propagation for our radio signals during a solar minimum sucks.

Have conditions improved? Or are you just anticipating conditions improving?

53 posted on 06/05/2019 8:17:37 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: mware

54 posted on 06/05/2019 8:19:40 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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To: abclily
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

Green New Deal, Gun Control and Abortions....................

55 posted on 06/05/2019 8:20:46 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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To: G Larry
The Scientific Method never invokes "consensus" or unproven models.

If it did, then sometime in the post-Gallieo era, the sun and planets suddenly stopped revolving around the earth and started revolving around the sun.

56 posted on 06/05/2019 8:28:38 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: tired&retired

We will know it a few months now if the predictions of cycle 25 will be exceptionally weak or not. IF it is this will be interesting.


57 posted on 06/05/2019 8:29:57 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Larry Lucido

“Be a good time to land there.”


Don’t be silly. Everyone knows you can only land on the Sun at night.


58 posted on 06/05/2019 8:31:00 AM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: econjack

73s


59 posted on 06/05/2019 8:31:05 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

The last solar cycle was maybe 40% of the previous one, and all indications are that the next one will be quieter.

woodfortrees.org has solar data, sunspots and mean solar output.


60 posted on 06/05/2019 8:35:27 AM PDT by DBrow
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