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Posted on 05/15/2025 8:10:59 AM PDT by DFG
On Tuesday, astronomers watched as a vast 'bird wing' eruption sent waves of superheated plasma surging across the sun's northern hemisphere.
At over 600,000 miles long (one million km), the filament of solar material was more than twice as long as the distance from the Earth to the moon.
Now, scientists predict that part of this filament eruption could hit Earth tomorrow.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, aurora chaser Jure Atanackov predicted that the full force of this eruption could trigger a severe or even extreme geomagnetic storm, the highest level on official rating systems.
Stunning video recorded by NASA's solar observation satellites shows the moment that filaments of plasma 75 times larger than Earth peeled away from the sun in a pair of sweeping 'wings'.
Most of the material was shot out of the sun's north pole, so it will mostly avoid Earth.
However, astronomers say that Earth will probably receive a glancing blow from the wake of the passing storm.
That means there is an increased chance of being able to spot the Northern Lights and a risk of disruption to electrical equipment.
Solar filaments are dense ribbons of cooler solar plasma which are suspended above the sun's surface by powerful magnetic fields.
When these magnetic fields become unstable, they can release the filaments in a violent eruption.
Jake Foster, astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, told MailOnline: 'Loops of hot plasma can sprout up from the Sun’s surface, following along its magnetic field lines, and occasionally they break free and shoot off into space at high speeds.'
Sometimes this triggers an event called a coronal mass ejection, a wave of plasma and magnetic fields which is launched into space.
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That ought to do it.
Why is it always these solar eruptions? Stoopid climate change!
And I suppose the sky is falling too.
Wow! Global warming on the sun must be real!
Joe Don Baker passed away last week. This may be the result of his finally discovering whether there is beer on the sun.
Would this mean good tanning weather?
More fear porn. Any one of us COULD have a heart attack or a stroke tomorrow. If we started to worry about what COULD happen, many would be dead of said heart attack and many in insane asylums.
If it happens, it happens and there is not a blessed thing any of us can do! As the old song goes, “Don’t worry, be happy!”
Solar maximum right now. Lots of solar disruptions for a while. We’re in the peak of Solar Cycle #25. The joint is jumpin’.
You might as well be walking on the sun
Free hot dogs and balloons for the kids!!
Radio transmissions effected? 🤔😊👍
Christmas present.
Gotta love the DM.
Earth isn’t at risk.
But Mars...
Hey, Marvin, incoming!!!!
Is anyone positive it came from the sun? Uranus is out there too.
The date on this story is 10 days ago. Is that a typo, or did this dreadful event already not happen?
Most of the material was shot out of the sun's north pole, so it will mostly avoid Earth... there is an increased chance of being able to spot the Northern Lights and a risk of disruption to electrical equipment.
Well there goes all the ice caps! Now the sun is going have the sea levels rise above all the flames!
Radiation from the flares has caused a series of shortwave radio blackouts
around the world--first over the Americas, followed by southeast Asia, the
Middle East and Africa. Ham radio operators may have noticed unusual
propagation effects from stations in all directions since May 13th.Most of this activity has come from sunspot 4087, which has an unstable 'beta-
gamma-delta' magnetic field. It could explode again today. NOAA forecasters
estimate a 75% chance of M-class solar flares and a 30% chance of X-flares on
May 15th. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
Oh boy! Got to get the bread and milk.
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