Posted on 07/11/2023 5:36:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Why is our Sun so active now? No one is sure. An increase in surface activity was expected because our Sun is approaching solar maximum in 2025. However, last month our Sun sprouted more sunspots than in any month during the entire previous 11-year solar cycle -- and even dating back to 2002. The featured picture is a composite of images taken every day from January to June by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory. Showing a high abundance of sunspots, large individual spots can be tracked across the Sun's disk, left to right, over about two weeks. As a solar cycle continues, sunspots typically appear closer to the equator. Sunspots are just one way that our Sun displays surface activity -- another is flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that expel particles out into the Solar System. Since these particles can affect astronauts and electronics, tracking surface disturbances is of more than aesthetic value. Conversely, solar activity can have very high aesthetic value -- in the Earth's atmosphere when they trigger aurora.
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Missed the apotd
The sun gots skin cancer from the sun. Nice picture though.
Sunspot Baby, sure had a real good time!
That is actually pretty cool that they form in band zones like that... Great instalment to your series!
Looks like Al Capone paid a visit.
That is a neat picture.
I’ve been an amateur radio operator since I was first licensed in 1953. There is an approximate 25 year period called the Sun Spot Cycle. At the peak of the solar cycle, communicating across the globe is possible with as little as 2 Watts. We are just starting to climb into the next peak. I hope I live long enough to enjoy it again.
Ive never it look like that before. Time put on the welding shield and see for myself.
Sun forgot to use sunscreen?
Now, THAT’s a good one!
Pick any small sun spot from that picture. That would be bigger than earth.
Then go into orbit in a space capsule. You won’t see any man made objects.
Conclusion:
Earth is puny compared to Sun.
Humans are puny compared to earth.
But some humans think SUV’s are causing global warming BWAHAHAHA
This photo has to be some kind of time lapse composite. I just looked at the sun through shielded binoculars and only saw 2 sun spots.
It is a composite of one photo every day from January to June. 2023.
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