Posted on 10/16/2015 11:43:44 AM PDT by ETL
The sun has sprung a leak: A hole in the topmost layer of the sun and its magnetic field, the size of 50 Earths, is letting loose an ultrafast solar wind that has kicked off several nights of auroras down on Earth.
A new image, from NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, reveals the enormous hole as it was Oct. 10, taken at an ultraviolet wavelength unseen by the human eye. To an ordinary observer, the gaping hole would be invisible, though you should NEVER stare at the sun because serious eye damage can result.
The gap in the sun's magnetic field lets out a stream of particles traveling at up to 500 miles (800 kilometers) per second, kindling a days-long geomagnetic storm upon hitting Earth.
Coronal holes, like the one that materialized last week, normally form over the sun's poles and lower latitudes, more often when the sun is at a less active point in its 11-year cycle. They are areas within the sun's outermost layer, called its corona, which are lower-density and cooler that, plus the weakened magnetic field, lets the plasma and charged particles that make up the corona stream out more easily in a solar wind. If aimed toward Earth, that spells the makings of a geomagnetic storm: a phenomenon that can affect power and navigation for satellites orbiting the Earth as well as radio communication.
“There’s a little black spot on the sun today
It’s the same old thing as yesterday
There’s a black hat caught in a high tree top
There’s a flag-pole rag and the wind won’t stop
I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running ‘round my brain
I guess I’m always hoping that you’ll end this reign
But it’s my destiny to be the king of pain...”
Sting-King of Pain
There is no sun, it’s a hoax. It’s a hole in the sky with light shinning through!
Don’t be fooled!
Oops-you were ahead by mere minutes...
Yes, we must sacrifice 200 virgins to Ra immediately, (good looking ones that are tastefully dressed and not too fat or too skinny, but just right) and middle class people must give up their automobiles and electricity so that shrubberies have less co2. Shrubberies make the sun god unhappy because they use their chlorophyll to steal the rays of the sun god.
She said we could go at night. (Larry the cable guy)
There’s a little black spot on the sun today.
I knew all these solar cells they’re installing everywhere would wind up using up the sun. This is bad news.
ClassyGreenEyedBlonde is not available to comment ...
That would be a Ahole.
On a similar note, our Federal unfunded mandates are over two hundred trillion dollars. Huge hole in the finances of this country.
It looks all relative to me...
“What a coincidence ... there’s a hole in the White House too”
Some say a-hole, some say b-hole.
Wicked cool movie, btw (in my weak opinion :) )
Well, now it makes sense:
“With an average density of 0.000005 to 0.000010 kg/m3, [VY Canis Majoris] is a hundred thousand times less dense than the atmosphere of Earth (air) at sea level. It is also undergoing strong mass loss with the outer layers of the star no longer gravitationally bound. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris
I hereby nominate Texan5 to be the next Poet Laureate of the World-—no, Earth (to be political correct).
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