Posted on 02/08/2023 8:11:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds, but scientists have no clue what caused it.
Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and deputy director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, told Space.com that while he has never seen a vortex like this, something odd is happening at the sun's 55 degree latitudes with clockwork regularity once every solar cycle, the 11-year period characterized by an ebb and flow in the generation of sunspots and eruptions.
The prominence...that McIntosh describes as a "hedgerow in the solar plasma", appears exactly at the 55 degree latitude around the sun's polar crowns every 11 years. Scientists know that it has something to do with the reversal of the sun's magnetic field that happens once every solar cycle, but they have no clue what drives it.
Scientists have regularly observed filaments tear away from this pole-embracing plasma hedgerow, but they have yet to see it form such a polar whirlwind until now.
Scientists know that the sun's polar regions play a key role in the generation of the star's magnetic field, which, in turn, drives its 11-year cycle of activity. They couldn't, however, observe that region directly.
The European Space Agency Solar Orbiter mission may shed some light on this odd phenomenon in the coming years. The mission, which is taking images of the sun from within the orbit of Mercury, will have its orbit tilted by up to 33 degrees.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Ban CFCs on Sol!
A vial being poured?
SUN-NADO!........................
If you think Polar Vortex was bad, just wait until you meet Solar Vortex.
Tasmanian Plasma Phantasma
Trump’s fault!
That’s some serious nader juice
Just wait until Ryan Hall Y’all gets a hold of this.
Anything that happens on the surface of the Sun began at its core. For photons, that takes about 500,000 years. So, yeah. It’s happened before.
“a “hedgerow in the solar plasma”,”
A spring clean for the May queen?
“They couldn’t, however, observe that region directly.”
Well, Duh. They should observe it AT NIGHT when the Sun is turned off and it’s not so hard to look at!
*Dumb Blonde Mode Off*
“Just wait until Ryan Hall Y’all gets a hold of this.”
He is a goof, isn’t he? I, myself, prefer Frankie MacDonald up in Nova Scotia for my weather predictions:
https://www.youtube.com/user/dogsandwolves
“Grab your shovel! Wear your hat! Make sure you’re stocked up on Pepsi and Chinese Food!”
How can you possibly know that?
Don’t forget, there are two paths you can go by...
but there’s always time to change the road you’re on
LOL! I watch every one of his vids.
Nice...but for America we don’t have much time to change the road we’re on
As an aside, that album is their best and I especially like “Going To California” and “Black Dog” - especially the story how the latter became the song title.
The “Global Warming” hysteria is fueled by the spiritual forces in high places (evil ones), that know the truth of God, and are doing everything they can to delay the inevitable. Humans are mere pawns in this battle. The spiritually darkened humans are swayed by these forces, thus they panic over global warming/climate change (like there is anything that can be done).
2 Peter 3:4-7
New International Version
4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
Certainly an interesting observation. Better minds than mine will someday figure out what’s going on inside that big ball of hydrogen.
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