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Sunspot twice as wide as Earth could fire eruptions straight at us Its a big one – Daily Express
usnewssite.com ^ | Saturday, May 8, 2021

Posted on 05/08/2021 3:30:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin

NASA satellites have observed a large sunspot forming on the surface of the Sun. The sunspot is twice as wide as Earth and it is facing away from us, for now. However, as Earth moves around the host star, the sunspot could fire a solar flare right at us.

Astronomy site Space Weather said: “A new sunspot is emerging over the sun’s northeastern limb, and it’s a big one.

“The sunspot’s primary core is twice as wide as Earth, and it is accompanied by two Moon-sized companion spots – dimensions which make it an easy target for amateur solar telescopes.

“In recent days it has hurled multiple CMEs into space.

“Future eruptions could be aimed at Earth as the sunspot turns toward us in the days ahead.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; carringtonevent; cme; coronalmassejection; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; science; sida; sunspot; sunspots
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To: BenLurkin

It was an M3.9... let me know if it gets to X-class.

Same goes for asteroids beyond lunar orbit, it is a big yawner.


41 posted on 05/08/2021 4:06:59 PM PDT by Grey182 (Trump won, Benedict is still Pope & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

There are some options...

Insure that the Solar Storm practices proper Social Distancing from Earth.

Require this Solar Storm before entering our magnetic field to wear double or even triple masks.


42 posted on 05/08/2021 4:07:34 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: BenLurkin

That could leave a mark.


43 posted on 05/08/2021 4:09:04 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (. )
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To: mewzilla

Be on the search for X flares. Those are the bed ones.


44 posted on 05/08/2021 4:09:45 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (. )
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To: T. P. Pole

So we are safe if we just stay on the dark side of the sun?


45 posted on 05/08/2021 4:10:12 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: dragnet2

A sunspot number of 3?

Years ago I ran Rurudyne’s Global Cooling Watch: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969680/posts

I jokingly called my updates things like “The Sun on Vacation: Day 42 of the Gore-Hansen Minimum”.


46 posted on 05/08/2021 4:10:25 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: dragnet2

Much larger sunspot from 2001

47 posted on 05/08/2021 4:10:47 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritL)
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To: BenLurkin

Vitamin D for everyone!


48 posted on 05/08/2021 4:14:34 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Rurudyne

Heh ... I just noticed that was 11 years ago!

One average solar cycle!


49 posted on 05/08/2021 4:15:06 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: immadashell

Only until Fauci signals the “ALL CLEAR!!”.


50 posted on 05/08/2021 4:16:15 PM PDT by Howie66 (God Bless TEXAS! #Texit)
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To: Bratch

but only if you wear two masks and hold your lucky feather


51 posted on 05/08/2021 4:17:28 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: Candor7
That should take out the Covid!

and end racism--a twofer!
52 posted on 05/08/2021 4:21:56 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Rurudyne
So that's what the lady FR mods look like.

Not exactly what I imagined they'd be.

But close!

53 posted on 05/08/2021 4:22:13 PM 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

The solution is more government.


54 posted on 05/08/2021 4:23:45 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wasn’t that huge piece of Chinese space junk supposed to fall on top of us today?


55 posted on 05/08/2021 4:29:16 PM PDT by Riley85
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To: UnwashedPeasant

And bring back more lockdowns..its simply too dangerous to go outside now....even with a mask!


56 posted on 05/08/2021 4:29:42 PM PDT by consult
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To: Rurudyne

👊👍


57 posted on 05/08/2021 4:31:14 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: T. P. Pole

You’re not missing anything —it’s the same, typically poor writing when it comes to Science topics you get lately…

As stated in other replies, the sun rotates on its own axis in less than a month, and most sunspot groups only last weeks at best.


58 posted on 05/08/2021 4:37:48 PM PDT by mikrofon (Ongoing Prayers for DJ Trump & RIP Rush Limbaugh)
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To: BenLurkin

Total BS, this is no bigger than your average sunspot. Slow news day. This is like reporting that the thunderstorm coming over the horizon “could generate a tornado that could come and knock down your house”. Right, and a truck could come and hit a tree in front your house.


59 posted on 05/08/2021 4:42:59 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: shanover

Yep. A constant drum beat of fear and threats and disaster. Sometimes its for a purpose but quite often our vile media does it because they are psychopaths and they simply just like harming people. It’s no more complex than that.


60 posted on 05/08/2021 4:43:29 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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