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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: JBW1949
There has been a lot of talk about Solar Cycle 25 being very weak. How weak no one really knows. This is the latest prediction:
"Cycle 25 will be slightly weaker than Cycle 24, making it the weakest cycle on record in the last hundred years"

from : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329519943_The_Adjusted_Solar_Flux_the_Start_of_Solar_Cycle_25

61 posted on 06/05/2019 8:37:07 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: BenLurkin
Dr. David Dilley's observations and conclusions

Professor Valentina Zharkova Breaks Her Silence and CONFIRMS “Super” Grand Solar Minimum

No doubt this is Anthropogenic Total Solar Gauss Lowering

7

62 posted on 06/05/2019 8:38:00 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: Red Badger

Going at night can’t work ... traffic jam, too many Pollocks crowding the path.


63 posted on 06/05/2019 8:40:14 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: econjack

10-4, over and out


64 posted on 06/05/2019 8:41:04 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England

Then we should wait until a cloudy day in Winter.................


65 posted on 06/05/2019 8:41:31 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: BenLurkin

Ominously...interesting choice of words. Ominously calm...even more interesting.

Trying to frighten us into approving more research dollars, no doubt.


66 posted on 06/05/2019 8:48:08 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: tired&retired

What did Obama do to cause the maximum of 2013-2014 to be so much lower than usual? And why?


67 posted on 06/05/2019 8:48:27 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: tired&retired

And the AGW liars say their are no significant changes during the solar cycle. Their eyes told them that. Lol.


68 posted on 06/05/2019 9:01:43 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: newfreep
If I understand correctly we have just begun the solar minimum cycle that will last approximately 11 years.

Sorry, the entire cycle takes 11+/- years.

Thus the minimum is the middle or low point and it will soon begin to increase. This is the period of strongest dipolar field strength so coronal mass ejections are minimal. The earth goes through a similar reversal periodically... 70,000 years but we are way overdue.

69 posted on 06/05/2019 9:11:25 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Just as a reference, another freeper posted “If I understand correctly we have just begun the solar minimum cycle that will last approximately 11 years.”

I simply included it in my reply that, in essence, was a parody of AOC and her “12 years before the earth ends”.

It was not meant to be a scientific discussion.


70 posted on 06/05/2019 9:23:43 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: BenLurkin

Yikes, what excuse will the cable company have without blaming outages to sun spots.


71 posted on 06/05/2019 9:37:35 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: BenLurkin

Been discussing this for years. A solar cycle is about 11 years. A minimum or maximum then precedes the lag time for an effect to be realized on earth. Estimates are about 3-5 years before that thermal inertia either abates or increases with climate effects following that, so at present, we are starting the lag as solar energy abates, the gradual dissipation of energy from the earth’s systems ( land/water/atmosphere) begins and climate variations follow.

The next few solar cycles are expected to be below average, so the next 20-40 years are likely to realize a gradual cooling of the earth’s systems and changing weather/climate over time. Enjoy the cool that’s coming. Good thing the US is able to produce copious amount of petro-energy! We may need it!

Soon, the science-leftist loons will be crying the “sky is cooling! we’re doomed (again)!”


72 posted on 06/05/2019 9:41:26 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: BenLurkin

We’re all gonna dieeeeee!!!!


73 posted on 06/05/2019 9:48:50 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: BenLurkin

Uh-oh, after 4.603 billion years, the sun woke up yesterday and decided to kill us all. What a coincidence!


74 posted on 06/05/2019 9:55:24 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

It’s possible that the universe could
collapse on us as we speak. All I can
say, is it hasn’t happened so far.


75 posted on 06/05/2019 9:59:25 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: freebird5850

75m at night really SUX now days (er, nights)

NU4J


76 posted on 06/05/2019 10:20:44 AM PDT by airdalechief
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To: dragnet2

Things are pretty slow right now and we think they will start to improve next year.


77 posted on 06/05/2019 10:27:12 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Jack Hammer

We’re all gonna dieeeeee!!!!

Last I checked, the mortality rate is still 100%


78 posted on 06/05/2019 10:42:33 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

As the morality rate goes down, the mortality rate goes up.


79 posted on 06/05/2019 10:44:27 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: BenLurkin
No comment until I hear from the Great Science Guy... Bill Nye, then I'll think the opposite...😋
80 posted on 06/05/2019 10:54:17 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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