Giant Sun Spot Turns Toward Earth – More Large Flares Possible (VIDEO)

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Michael Ricciardi
Planet Save
Sept 28, 2011

Stretching for more than 100,000 km (62, ooo miles) from end to end, solar Active Region (AR) 1302 is slowly coming into position where it directly faces the Earth. The region contains a “behemoth” sunspot — several times larger than the Earth — named sunspot 1302.

The sunspot has already been the source of two ‘X-class’ solar flares (‘X’ signifying the most extreme,  or largest); the first, measuring an  X1.4, on September 22, and the second, an X1.9, coming just two days later on Sept. 24.

The “extreme ultra-violet flash” was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

SDO also captured a dark, shock wave racing away from the flare site. Astrophysicists believe it to be  a sign that a coronal mass ejection (CME) had also occurred (see video below).

The AR has also seen several lower magnitude flares since the X1.9 blast, with M8.6 and M7.4 flares erupting on Sept. 24, and a second M8.8 flare early on Sept. 25.

None of the flares has been aimed at the Earth, but as the the Suns rotates the AR will orient itself more directly in-line with Earth. Will we be the “target” of one or more large flares? That of course is the question. AR 1302 remains active as it slowly turns towards us. Scientists are, so far, not making any guesses.

Predicting solar flares and CMEs is exceedingly difficult.

Recently, great progress was made on predicting the appearance of sunspots (which typically precede a flare) based upon the detection of acoustic wave patterns emanating from the solar interior (see my earlier article on this discovery). This new technique allows detection in as little as 24 hours in advance for some types of sunspots.

The presence of a sunspot does not guarantee a solar flare eruption (which does not, it turn, guarantee a CME), but they are related somehow. Perhaps soon, the method will be refined enough to determine which acoustic wave patterns indicate both a sunspot and a solar flare coupling.

VIDEO Below: Active Region 1302 unleashes an X1.9-category solar flare at 5:40 am EDT on Sept. 24, 2011. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash in composite wavelengths (211, 193, 171 angstrom). Across the top is a graph of the x-ray intensity during the flare as recorded by the GOES spacecraft. Note: The sun has been rotated 90 degrees clock-wise.

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Solar flares and the CME’s that often follow them are the main contributors to what’s known as the solar wind, a continuous flow of high-energy, sub-atomic particles. This wind is what determines most of our local “space weather” and, during active solar periods, can make space dangerous for astronauts, communication satellites, and power grids down here on the planet’s surface.

As to the long-term impact of increased solar flare activity on the Earth’s climate, this is a big unknown, and the subject of some study, and much speculation.

Sunspots are the dark spots, often in pairs of oppositely electric charge, that emerge from the sun’s interior with quasi-regular frequency, speckling the face of the sun. They are the loci of magnetically active regions caused by the blocking of convecting plasma fields from deep in the sun’s interior. As a result, the surface temperature of the ‘spot’ is actually cooler than the surrounding surface topology, an so appears darker.


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10 Responses to “Giant Sun Spot Turns Toward Earth – More Large Flares Possible (VIDEO)”

  1. A holiday island popular with Britons is preparing for a mass evacuation because of a possible volcanic eruption.
    Experts have recorded 150 tremors on El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, since yesterday – raising fears of an imminent eruption.
    Last night 53 people were ordered out of their homes over fears of landslides and the army has been called in to prepare for a possible event.
    This news plus the 2 sun spot CME`s means a new study should be made concerning
    Dr. Mensur Omerbashich`s work as the theory of georesonance.
    I shall try to understand what I can and hope that there is no further development of an untoward nature on the island of El Hierro.

    Tom Reply:
    September 28th, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    Electromagnetic wave technology. Man-made earthquakes and hurricanes. Beware the earthquake/tsunami combos.

  2. The big blast is coming yet ripple effects are already here.

    ————————————————————————————————–

    THE WEATHER CHANNEL SAGA EPISODE STARRING GIN

    Cancelled due to incoming imminent danger. Unfreindlys approaching cave perimeter. Emergency shut down in progress.

    System auto boom initiated. Locking down to level 6.

    Show will return for GIN THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

    Glen Reply:
    September 28th, 2011 at 1:25 pm

    More CRAP from MORK the RETARD.

  3. was this what was behind the eletrical black out in CHili last week?

    BiGpharmakillZ Reply:
    September 28th, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    I doubt it. More fear mongering Vic. Don’t believe any of it.

  4. Well, if the solar flare fries electronics like the one did over England in 1859; all I can say is that it would be like a giant “RESET” button.

    Primary trades (farming, fishing, ranching) would again be supreme. Some secondary trades (manufacturing, defense and related trades, health and veterinary care) would go back to the local level.

    However, the vast level of tertiary trades: attorneys, the services, and the like – I hope they like pulling weeds and picking tomatoes, because they’ll either have to learn to start all over again, or starve.

    I’m going to LIKE this!

  5. The Sun must one huge M.F-er ! I mean that solar flare looks like a twinkling dwarf to the surface !

    Watch-out for the radiation, it’ll screw your DNA up in a snap !

  6. Something wicked this way comes….repent ye sinners

  7. Forget sun spots,,, Yellostone is geting ready to blow. It will kill almost everyone on earth. Oh,, don’t pick a flower there. You will get a ticket.

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