A curtain of light is the backdrop for Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano
Posted on 04/10/2010 10:13:57 AM PDT by TaraP
Decaying sunspot 1060 delivered a parting shot on April 8th. The active region's magnetic field erupted, sparking a B3-class solar flare and hurling a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) almost directly toward Earth. Geomagnetic disturbances are possible when the cloud arrives on April 11th or 12th. [UPDATED: aurora gallery]
SUNGRAZING COMET: Today, the sun had a comet for breakfast. The icy visitor from the outer solar system appeared with no warning on April 9th and plunged into the sun during the early hours of April 10th. One comet went in, none came out. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) had a good view of the encounter
The comet was probably a member of the Kreutz sungrazer family. Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at least 2000 years ago. Several of these fragments pass by the sun and disintegrate every day. Most are too small to see but occasionally a big fragment like today's attracts attention.
This has been an active year for big, bright sungrazers. There was one on Jan. 4th, one on March 12th, and now one today. Normally we see no more than 3 or 4 bright ones in a whole year; now we're seeing them almost once a month. It could be a statistical fluctuation or, maybe, a swarm of Kreutz fragments is nearing perihelion (closest approach to the sun). Stay tuned for doomed comets!
Beautiful Photos!
Wonder what causes those colors?
Maybe the Aurora Borealias?
A curtain of light is the backdrop for Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano
The most powerful geomagnetic storm since December 2006 struck the Earth on Monday, a day earlier than expected.
On 3 April, the SOHO spacecraft spotted a cloud of charged particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME) shooting from the sun at 500 kilometres per second. This velocity suggested the front would reach Earth in roughly three days.
“It hit earlier and harder than forecast,” says Doug Biesecker of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
Fortunately, the storm was not intense enough to interfere strongly with power grids or satellite navigation, but it did trigger dazzling auroras in places like Iceland (pictured).
Such storms highlight the uncertainty in the arrival times of CMEs, which can easily be 15 hours off predictions, Biesecker says. Better modelling of the solar wind, which can accelerate CMEs en route to Earth, could reduce the uncertainty.
BUT ON APRIL 4th
Magnitude 7.2 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
2010 April 04 22:40:42 UTC
Not sure if these CME’s have weakened the Magnetic Field to a point to cause all these earthquakes?
Unfortunately I could not find the History channel - or to watch it live online.
So I am watching the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and hearing magnificent speaker after magnificent speaker....
No - I didn’t see this - was showing the pictures from the article in on the same page linked in the first post.
LOL - did YOU take this picture? LOL.
I have no idea. But it is amazing and beautiful!
Yes they are - and the Aurora photos from the links on that first linked page are just wonderful! and Awesome!
Updated April 10, 2010
Earthquake shakes southern Alaska; no damage
AP
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a preliminary magnitude 4.8 earthquake has shaken Anchorage and other communities in southern Alaska, but no damage has been reported.
April 10th
5.9 EQ Fiji..
Solar Winds, Global daily earthquakes and a SUN on the blink of something.....
I think at this point, I would rather take advice from the Ancient Mayans than NASA and the USGS!
LOL....
Hm.
Well - the ancient Mayans had a glimpse of what it’s all about - but the Bible has the truth.
Read Matthew 24.
Read the book of Revelation.
I’ll try to come back and post some specific scriptures but one I am thinking about it this:
From Acts 2:16 where Peter Quotes from Joel Chapter 2 from the Old Testament:
16 .... this (Meaning the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which began on Pentecost -but is happening in our day in a bigger way) is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17” ‘In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
18Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
19 I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
20 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
Amen!
That is the TRUTH!
Thank you for posting this!
My wife and I were treated to a beautiful display of northern lights in the Pocatello, ID area after an X class eruption. Shimmering green "curtains" and very direct green rays (like sunlight through a hole in the clouds).
Thanks for the ping!
Not sure if this is authentic...
But from Google Space about what is in the Egg Nebula....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drZsMBD9eWg&feature=related
Those are some great pics!
WOW.
THANKS.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! THANKS.
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