EARTH-DIRECTED ERUPTION?.....

Spaceweather ^ | Feb 4th, 2010

[TaraP]

NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft is tracking four active regions strung across the eastern hemisphere of the sun. Click on the image below to set the scene in motion--and keep an eye on number 4.

The movie shows an eruption of unstable magnetic loops. The blast occured around 0130 UT on February 5th and it appears to have hurled some material in the general direction of Earth. Images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are not yet available to evaluate that possibility. Stay tuned for updates in a few hours.

[TaraP]

[HiTech RedNeck]

USUALLY, this kind of thing comes from a sunspot, and Sol has been spotless for many months.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the moon is made of green cheese, is the sun made of mint jelly?

[IamCenny]

There have been 5 or 6 sunspots over the last few months, the sun has not been quiet at all.

[TaraP]

LOL..Well the SUN has been coming back to life lately, so

not sure what the sun as in store for us....

[HiTech RedNeck]

OK. So isn’t that still way less than the usual?

[Busta Rhymes]

LOL !!!

I was thinking green apple Jolly Rancher myself. :D

[pillut48]

Fascinating stuff! Check out this sun-study link from that page--cool beans!

[MS_Steve]

Looks like a ‘sun fart’.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The animation looks kind of weird. First something happens in the solar atmosphere, then the ball turns, then another shift in the atmosphere, and so on.

[VanShuyten]

Unless the ejecta takes two years to get here (2012), I’m not worried!

[onedoug]

Uniformitarianism

[phs3]

ping

[HiTech RedNeck]

Could it be just the first of a series of solar spitballs?

[the invisib1e hand]

the keywords make me uncomfortable.

[justa-hairyape]

Believe those images are looking at the back side of the sun. The front side has had very weak activity the past few days. Was more active a couple weeks ago when the Sunspot number was 40. Currently at 11. Very weak. Perhaps they are referring to this note from the Solar Cycle 24 site

There will be a small (30%) chance for minor geomagnetic storming around Feb 7 because of a Coronal Hole solar wind stream flowing from the sun as well as possible effects due to a small CME on Feb 2. Stay Tuned.

At any rate, it was small and minor. We got months ways to go before our sun starts getting real mean again, assuming its activity peaks strongly.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“If the moon is made of green cheese, is the sun made of mint jelly?”

“Would ya eat the moon is it was made of spare ribs?”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Somebody misspelled the name of that famous male impotence remedy.

[justa-hairyape]

Here is the current front side activity.