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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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"The spot is so big..." J. Carson
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:24:46 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Global warming again...Oh, wait...
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:28:00 AM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(Murrill McLean Award, for cowardice by a Policeman, shooting of 12 lb. Mini-Dachshund. Danville, VA)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:30:30 AM PDT
by
MomwithHope
(Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
To: BenLurkin
Sunspot Baby sure had a real good time.
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:30:54 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv
![](https://media.tenor.com/images/86e753bd149e4b36fe31da9287d1b45c/tenor.gif)
Catastrophism
To: BenLurkin
If Mr. Sunny hocks a loogie...
Big if.
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:38:11 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
To: matthew fuller
Better not be downwind when the sun farts.
To: matthew fuller
I don’t doubt it, they will somehow blame this on us, with their usual flawless logic say sunblock is blocking the sun
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: BenLurkin
Got to kill more cows, closed down farms and raise the price of gas to $100 a gallon (all in the name of climate change don’t you know).
Oh, I forgot, get another booster shot and wear a mask.
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:40:35 AM PDT
by
CIB-173RDABN
(I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:48:10 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
To: BenLurkin
The impact of this will be felt all the way to Uranus.
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:48:44 AM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:49:22 AM PDT
by
freedomjusticeruleoflaw
(Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
To: Old Yeller
You beat me to the punchline but I think mine was better.
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:50:45 AM PDT
by
freedomjusticeruleoflaw
(Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
To: matthew fuller
Now we all know that the sun is all about shining....nothing to do with “heat”.
To: matthew fuller
Actually, in this case, it's more like "solar warming" ... a new crisis requiring some unwise, uninformed and, especially, unelected bureaucrat to self-declare yet another "Public Health Emergency". It's all bullschiff.
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:51:57 AM PDT
by
glennaro
(Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
To: Huskrrrr
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:53:18 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Old Yeller
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:55:31 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:56:57 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.” – Aristotl)
To: matthew fuller
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...John Kerry and his band of commie fools will use this to 'prove' there's global warming.(More sunspots = more heat). Just like liberal weather bimbos used the period 30 days after the summer solstice (traditionally the hottest time of the year for millions of years) 'to prove' the 'earf' is heating up.
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posted on
08/06/2022 9:59:58 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Every large city run by democrats is a hellhhole.. Don't let democrats 'hellhole' the country. VOTE.)
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