Posted on 06/14/2022 1:38:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The sun flexed its considerable magnetic muscles today (June 13), and two solar spacecraft captured the show on video.
Earth's star unleashed a long-duration solar flare early this morning, blasting high-energy radiation into space for about three hours. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which has been studying the sun from Earth orbit since 2010, observed the dramatic event in multiple wavelengths.
The flare registered as an M3.4, putting it in the "medium" class of solar outburst. It was strong enough, however, to cause temporary radio blackouts(opens in new tab) in the Asia-Pacific region here on Earth. (Scientists put powerful solar flares into three categories, C, M and X, with C being the weakest and X the most intense.)
This morning's flare was also associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME), a huge cloud of superheated plasma that rockets away from the sun at tremendous speeds. Both SDO and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a NASA/European Space Agency probe that launched in 1995, snapped imagery of today's CME, showing the plasma cloud's immense size and impressive speed.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
EMP imminent?
the long one was yesterday to be clear. Over 8 hours, start to finish. Pooped it’s CME out into space, not at us.
Pretty much when you see it it’s here.
Must be why I lost channels on my satellite tv a little while ago.
Perhaps it is delayed getting here to Indiana thus article from yesterday and interrruption today.
It’s only a matter of time before something like this is pointed directly at us. The longer we go, the higher the likelihood of a catastrophic Carrington-like EMP event.
Back when I was a kid, a local TV show had a “Science Fiction Theater” on Saturday mornings, just after cartoons.
Their opener was of the Sun giving off CMEs, to the opening instrumentals of Santana’s “Black Magic Woman”. It was a very captivating intro, followed by an eclectic sci-fi movie.
Clearly Trump’s fault. This wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t gotten the US out of the Kyoto Protocols.
Good flick.
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