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Vast Sunspot Has Grown 10 Times in Size in Just 48 Hours
Newsweak ^ | Aug 24, 2022 | ED BROWNE

Posted on 08/25/2022 10:06:50 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The sunspot, known as AR3085, has also been shooting off several minor solar flares, though nothing strong enough to be disruptive on Earth.

The sunspot, known as AR3085, has also been shooting off several minor solar flares, though nothing strong enough to be disruptive on Earth.

Sunspots are regions on the sun where magnetic fields are so intense that some heat is prevented from reaching the sun's surface. As such, sunspots may appear as dark patches.

Due to the intense magnetic fields, sunspots are known sources of solar activity. When these magnetic field lines suddenly shift, a vast amount of energy is released in the form of a flash of radiation, known as a solar flare, or a cloud of plasma and magnetic field, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME).

At the moment, it seems unlikely that sunspot AR3085 will lead to any strong space weather activity.

As of August 21 it had given off only C-class solar flares, which are a weak type. Generally, only M-class flares and the strongest X-class flare types are powerful enough to cause radio issues on Earth, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: ar3085; carringtonevent; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; earthshatterinkaboom; science; sida; solarflare; sun; sunspot; sunspots; wheresthekaboom
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To: BenLurkin

We’re all gonna DIE!!

‘Face

;o]


21 posted on 08/25/2022 10:44:57 AM PDT by Monkey Face ( ~~ Life gets better when you start forgiving the people who never apologized. ~~ )
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To: BenLurkin

Should have gone to EVs quicker. Mother Nature is not happy.


22 posted on 08/25/2022 10:51:47 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: BenLurkin
Well....the "cannibal" CME fizzled last week so...let's float another FUD story out there, shall we?


23 posted on 08/25/2022 10:52:31 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: BenLurkin

newsweak,ffs


24 posted on 08/25/2022 10:53:39 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: telescope115

Oooohhh!!!! Keep us updated!!!


25 posted on 08/25/2022 11:01:00 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: bigbob

Here you go, ffs.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sunspot&va=b&t=hr&iar=news&ia=news

Take your pick, ffs.


26 posted on 08/25/2022 11:01:05 AM 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

Like the old movie “Solar Attack”...
We’re doomed!


27 posted on 08/25/2022 11:48:10 AM PDT by SuperLuminal
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To: fwdude

Climate change on the sun is real


28 posted on 08/25/2022 12:17:50 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: All

To put this into perspective, some sunspots in active cycles of the 20th century measured ten times the size of this one. The 1947 cycle holds the record for sunspot size and the 1957-58 cycle holds the record for intensity.


29 posted on 08/25/2022 12:21:17 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Cultural elder -- problem is, that only counts for every other culture)
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To: ComputerGuy

“Way back when, in physics class, we were told that a speck from the sun’s core the size of a pinhead would kill you from 100 miles away.”

Just when you thought fentanyl was bad. The junkies will go bat guano loco over that.


30 posted on 08/25/2022 12:34:42 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: BenLurkin
Here you go, ffs.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sunspot&va=b&t=hr&iar=news&ia=news

Take your pick, ffs

I just *know* 'ffs' stands for Friendly Freeper Socialite.

31 posted on 08/25/2022 12:38:48 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Science” articles and sites are some of the worst for clickbait now.


32 posted on 08/25/2022 12:44:15 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BenLurkin

“I’m not saying it’s monkeypox, but it’s monkeypox.”


33 posted on 08/25/2022 1:06:27 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: BenLurkin

The sunspots were tiny but have grown to be small sunspots.
Run for your life!


34 posted on 08/25/2022 1:12:47 PM PDT by bosco24 (EOD)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Will do! It may not be visible if it’s rotated out ov view-we’ll see.


35 posted on 08/25/2022 1:25:53 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: BenLurkin

AR3088 seems much more interesting. It’s polarity is rotated 90 degrees from “normal”.


36 posted on 08/25/2022 1:36:16 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: BenLurkin

There’s a little black spot on the sun today.
It’s the same old thing as yesterday.


37 posted on 08/25/2022 3:02:36 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: BenLurkin

Luke 21:25

There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

...and also global warming.


38 posted on 08/27/2022 6:46:24 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4088778/posts


39 posted on 08/27/2022 6:49:56 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
Ok....so AR3085 fizzled. Now in the news today...AR3089 is the latest Earth killer..."Huge Sunspot Pointed Straight at Earth Has Developed a Delta Magnetic Field.

So the Sun spot activity has increased...as it does every 11 years. This is the third such story in the last 3 weeks.

We're all gonna die!

40 posted on 09/02/2022 7:20:55 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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