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Huge, potentially disruptive sunspot will swing round to face Earth this weekend
.livescience.com ^
| 08/05/2022
| y Jamie Carter
Posted on 08/06/2022 9:24:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The spot is so big it's changing the way the sun vibrates, according to spaceweather.com. If the dark spot hurls a blob of plasma at Earth, it could disrupt our magnetic field, affecting GPS and communication satellites orbiting close to Earth as well as airplane navigation systems. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center issued a forecast for an unsettled geomagnetic field around Earth on Aug. 6 and 7, which could means auroras, though whether it becomes a full-blown solar storm is not yet clear.
The telltale vibrational changes showed up in a helioseismic map near the sun's southeastern limb.
Solar flares can heat clouds of electrically charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere to enormous temperatures, which can launch gigantic blobs of plasma at Earth known as, coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
The sun has an 11 year cycle during which its activity waxes and wanes, with a distinct "solar maximum" and "solar minimum" when the number of sunspots are most and least numerous, respectively. The sun is now headed for a solar maximum in 2024 or 2025. Lately, the sun has been more active than NASA predicted. CMEs are normal behavior for sunspots at this point of the sunspot cycle...
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; aurora; carringtonevent; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; humor; science; sida; sunspot; sunspots
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To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/06/2022 10:07:25 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: BenLurkin
It’s gonna spew a meteor the size of the Empire State Building right toward Mayberry!
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posted on
08/06/2022 10:12:26 AM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
To: BenLurkin
To: Fester Chugabrew
A zooming, zipping, and speeding meteor. Yeehaw!.
(It’s gonna cause a bus to fall off a cliff in Nepal.}
24
posted on
08/06/2022 10:16:50 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
climate hysteria will be ratcheted up to the max
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posted on
08/06/2022 10:18:26 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
To: martin_fierro; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks martin_fierro. Be sure to wear sunblock 200. ;^)
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posted on
08/06/2022 10:28:41 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: BenLurkin
“The future so bright... I gotta wear shades!”
To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
Rectum damn near killed him.😏
28
posted on
08/06/2022 10:57:07 AM PDT
by
BiteYourSelf
( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
To: BenLurkin
The “Sunspot Reduction Act” will fix this.
29
posted on
08/06/2022 11:09:14 AM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/06/2022 11:10:29 AM PDT
by
mware
(RETIRED)
To: BenLurkin
Better beware of the blob, it creeps and leaps and glides and slides......
31
posted on
08/06/2022 11:11:07 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: BenLurkin
The UN’s, little Swedish Meatball Climatologist must be having a real hissy fit.
32
posted on
08/06/2022 11:25:58 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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posted on
08/06/2022 12:13:39 PM PDT
by
Az Joe
(Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Huge, potentially disruptive sunspot will swing round to face Earth this weekend then ZAP!
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posted on
08/06/2022 12:18:41 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: BenLurkin
The earth is spinning faster now. Won’t even feel it.
35
posted on
08/06/2022 12:23:16 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: BenLurkin
The Amish win... It will go completely unnoticed.
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posted on
08/06/2022 1:17:13 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: mware
Found these rocks on my porch this morning...
....should I be concerned?
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posted on
08/06/2022 1:29:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: dfwgator
Sunspot Baby sure had a real good time.
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posted on
08/06/2022 1:33:38 PM PDT
by
henbane
To: BenLurkin
Hope I find one under my pi!low.
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posted on
08/06/2022 4:27:13 PM PDT
by
mware
(RETIRED)
To: BenLurkin
When will we see the Northern Lights this weekend?
40
posted on
08/06/2022 7:52:29 PM PDT
by
jonrick46
(Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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