Posted on 08/16/2022 10:21:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Acloud of "dark plasma" erupted from the sun on Sunday and is predicted to make contact with Earth on Wednesday, giving rise to the possibility of a minor geomagnetic storm.
The eruption of material is known as a coronal mass ejection (CME)—a cloud of charged solar gas and magnetic fields. It was launched toward Earth on August 14 from a region of the sun known as AR3076. Solar activity news site spaceweather.com stated on Monday morning that the "plume of dark plasma" was traveling at over 1.3 million miles per hour. At that speed, it's expected to take a few days to travel the distance from the sun to the Earth.
CMEs are launched from areas of the sun known as sunspots, which appear to be dark patches on the sun's surface—though certain NASA footage may also make them appear bright.
Observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), seen above, show the moment the CME was launched from the sun's surface, appearing as a brief dark cloud towards the end of the clip at around 11:30 UT.
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What good does this announcement do ?
Trump’s fault!
Gives you time to bend over and kiss your ass goodby . ;)
This announcement does nothing, since the handful of people who read Newspeak don’t have real lives.
A similar announcement made to satellite operators, grid operators, telecommunications operators, and the like, gives them advance warning so they can prepare their systems to handle the storm.
Why is it called a “dark plasma”? Perhaps it is no longer hot enough to glow.
We’ll be ok as long as the plasma streams don’t cross.
“Glows” in other wavelengths probably!
Anyone who cares will go to www.spaceweather.com
Not Newsweak, ffs.
Not worried. Dark Brandon will save us.
Dark Plasma?......................
You’re glowing quite brightly between 8 and 10 microns ...
Of course! I’m slipping.
"Dark plasma" is just a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). I guess "dark plasma" sounds spookier.
"...areas of the sun known as sunspots, which appear to be dark patches on the sun's surface—though certain NASA footage may also make them appear bright..."
Good lord. It's just a simple question of what wavelengths you're looking at. They're "dark patches" in the visible part of the spectrum, they're "bright" in other parts of the spectrum. D-uh.
Nevertheless, nice to know we're getting a visit from a Solar Fart.
The sun just passed some gas is all
When did a CME get trannied into “Dark Plasma”? It seems every chance to sew doom and gloom in even the most mundane of events is par for the course.
Destination, Washington DC?
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