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Huge 'sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth is spotted on the Sun - and scientists warn it could bombard our planet with solar flares capable of causing devastating blackouts
Daily Mail ^
| 11/22/23
| Jonathon Chadwick
Posted on 11/22/2023 6:53:37 AM PST by week 71
Huge 'sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth is spotted on the Sun - and scientists warn it could bombard our planet with solar flares capable of causing devastating blackouts Spots on sun described as 'archipelago' as they look like a collection of islands These planet-sized dark spots can release charged particles that hit the Earth By JONATHAN CHADWICK FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:46 EST, 22 November 2023 | UPDATED: 07:46 EST, 22 November 2023
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View comments They look like small dots of pepper on a tasty egg yolk, or an 'archipelago' – a big group of islands on some faraway yellow planet.
But the latest set of snaps from NASA actually show a cluster of 'sunspots' – cooler parts on the sun's surface caused by massive changes in our star's magnetic field.
The images were captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which has been monitoring the sun from space for more than a decade.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; aurora; carringtonevent; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; doomed; dooomed; doooomed; dooooomed; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; science; sida; sunspots
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:53:37 AM PST
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week 71
To: week 71
Wear a mask. Social distance.
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:54:20 AM PST
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Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: week 71
Women and children hardest hit…
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:54:44 AM PST
by
IncPen
("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
To: week 71
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:55:40 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: week 71
Why don’t we just pass a law against Sunspots?
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:55:45 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: week 71
It’s ok, my heat is natural gas……. Burn baby, burn 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:55:45 AM PST
by
Lockbox
(politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
To: Lockbox
Got to get pump/transferred around the system
for it to be used in homes.
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:58:48 AM PST
by
deport
To: week 71
This way they can blame the sunspots when they shut down the grid.
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posted on
11/22/2023 6:59:15 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: week 71
The only way to fight this threat is to immediately adopt socialism and put professors in charge of everything.
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:02:31 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: week 71
Cover story for what is coming up next year... just before the elections.
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:02:56 AM PST
by
Mathews
(I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:03:19 AM PST
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Mathews
(I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
To: Larry Lucido
>>Wear a mask. Social distance.
and by all means, raise taxes.
To: IncPen
Don’t forget minorities!!
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:05:44 AM PST
by
ealgeone
To: week 71
People need to be ‘humbled’ a bit...
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:06:33 AM PST
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BobL
(I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
To: Red Badger
Sunspot baby, sure had a real good time.
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:07:30 AM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: week 71
Also be interesting to see if the solar flares take out the delicate electronics associated with solar power systems.
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11/22/2023 7:07:45 AM PST
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BobL
(I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
To: qwerty1234
Mail in voting should fix it..
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:08:33 AM PST
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PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
To: dfwgator
Jeremiah 10:2 .........................
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:10:20 AM PST
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
11/22/2023 7:13:13 AM PST
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Vaduz
(....)
To: Larry Lucido
Bla Bla, Bla Bla,Bla. Right up there with the great year2000 millennial scare.
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