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Author:  Sky [ Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:44 am ]
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[I love the images SDO is putting out - this is another stunnign example of the science...Sky]



Nasa wrote:
On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the news-making solar event on August 1 shows the C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right), multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more.



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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html


We will hopefully see ALL the evidense of the Sun going through it "ramp-up" in the next year.



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Author:  L2L [ Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:25 am ]
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Very cool image please keep posting these Sky :clap :clap
Author:  Shy [ Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:49 pm ]
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L2L wrote:
Very cool image please keep posting these Sky :clap :clap


Yes SKY, please keep posting such beautiful & intereting pictures. Thank you!
Author:  Sky [ Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:59 am ]
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Hallo Shy

Certainly will do. I really enjoy the images SDO is capable off.

This is why we made The Sun thread, so we can record the history, as in my opinion, we will have a lot of potential issues with the sun in the next cycle of activity.

Watch this space!


;)
Author:  Siam [ Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:32 pm ]
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WOW, what a picture!! thanks Sky. ;)
Author:  L2L [ Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:00 pm ]
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Phatman wrote:
=== SDO Pic of the day ===

You up to the minute info on the sun. Isn't it interesting that they have this huge interest in the sun
recently ? SGI just sold computers for SDO study to Stanford. Hmm...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/main/index.html

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Author:  L2L [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:13 pm ]
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Dex wrote:
THE SUN

Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs'

Thu, Aug 26 12:50 PM

Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs.

Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid.

Despite its rebuttal, NASA's been watching out for this storm since 2006 and reports from the US this week claim the storms could hit on that most Hollywood of disaster dates - 2012.



Continued:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100826/9 ... -in_1.html
Author:  Sky [ Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:43 am ]
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:awe :awe :awe



100 Million Hydrogen bombs aint no puff of smoke.

Thanks for copying the article here L2L

Best we protect our precious, just in case.

Wonder if that will be big enough to produce a "Knowing" effect?
Author:  L2L [ Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:24 am ]
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Funnily enough Sky that is the first thing that I thought of when I first read it on the GT :awe
Author:  Sky [ Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:47 am ]
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Again - I find these new images (this is a composite) quite stunning.


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Author:  L2L [ Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:20 am ]
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Another awesome photo, thanks Sky
Author:  masonicboom [ Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:55 am ]
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"You Might As Well Be Walking On The Sun"

Good song.
Author:  Bluebonnet [ Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:42 am ]
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Welcome, boom! :wavey

Quote:
This is a love attack I know it went out but it's back.


:heart
Author:  Sky [ Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:03 pm ]
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Image



A very busy active region popped off about ten blasts of solar material over a two-day period (Aug. 31- Sept. 2, 2010). With this composited image and movie three instruments on the STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft, we can see the flares and coronal mass ejections occur on the Sun (in extreme UV light), then follow the clouds of particles as they expand in the lower corona (with the COR1 instrument) and further out into space (with the COR2 instrument).

Since these storms were on the far side of the Sun, they did not produce any effects on Earth. However, solar rotation will bring this active region into view of us at Earth sometime about September 10 or 11. The two sets of movies show all three instruments in one or a closer view of just Sun with the COR 1 instrument.

Pick of the Week - 10 September 2010


I love the NASA science that produce these awesome pics!!


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Author:  Sky [ Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:26 am ]
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I had to post these images of the Sun of today! Looks like a FACE! Smiley (sort of) Face that is not too happy. Hmmmm?


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Author:  Bluebonnet [ Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:56 am ]
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Quote:
I had to post these images of the Sun of today! Looks like a FACE! Smiley (sort of) Face that is not too happy. Hmmmm?


Awesome pics, indeed, Sky.

Hmmmmm - "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature?"
Author:  rutsuyasun [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:12 am ]
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Check this out - looks pretty big, but I'm no expert.

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http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin ... etector=C2
Author:  rutsuyasun [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:14 am ]
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Just noticed when I posted the former:

12/12/2010 at 12:12pm Hmmmm......... :hmm Trying to get my attention or what? Could energy from these CME's (is that what they are?) be heading for earth?
Author:  Sky [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:12 pm ]
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Nice catch on that flare ruts. Those CME's sure do get radiation of various wavelengths to the planet as it is carried on the magnetic ribbon (or at least some of it). Not good if it is excessive gamma particles as they penetrate and heat up the core.

I have just done a lecture on future issues for the planet and I think I must tag some of the references in the Sun folder as we are looking at instabilities from the Sun that will kick the 7 of 10 events discussed on the main forum. At least listing them here will put it on record for the GT crew as an educational option - against what the Zeta-talk team is spewing.


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Author:  Sky [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:04 pm ]
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How's this puppy for extreme - taken on the 9th of December by SDO

It made the Life Magazines Pic's of the Year list!!!


http://www.life.com/image/ugc1150181/in-gallery/52491/2010-pictures-of-the-year



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Author:  L2L [ Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:33 pm ]
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Holy SMOKES :awe

That has to be the size of Jupiter if NOT bigger :scared

WOW
Author:  rutsuyasun [ Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:24 pm ]
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Strange massive tears in the solar surface- Earth quivers
Posted on January 13, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

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January 12, 2011 – There is massive tearing on the solar surface in the latest pictures of the solar corona transmitted by SOHO. May we be the first to say that what we’re looking at is altogether strange and a little bizarre. A larger resolution picture is not currently available on the Space Weather website. No need to formulate any theories…we’re just saying in all our years of pouring over coronal holes- this latest snapshot of the Sun is the oddest. The magnetosphere underwent a dramatic twist last night in the onslaught of a high density solar wind stream but that’s not what caught our attention. Instead, it is the pattern of another plate obstruction involving the Australian and Pacific plates.

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Australia Jan. 12

We see a heavy tremor followed by a large shaking which registered on most seismometers across the globe. The intensity was strongest in this Pacific region so we see more trouble to come in this part of the world. A deep and powerful 6.5 quake struck the Bonin Islands of Japan at a depth of 520.4 km and that perhaps best summarizes some of the massive tectonic stress movement of plates over the last 45 days. Stay tuned…

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/
Author:  Sky [ Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:11 am ]
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This was an excellent find for our record ruts - thank you!

The science I am following.

:candle
Author:  Sky [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:47 am ]
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There's a Hole in the Sun!
Analysis by Ian O'Neill
Wed Feb 9, 2011 05:17 PM ET


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And it's leaking plasma into space...


This rather dramatic photograph of the sun was taken on Feb. 1 by the Japanese-led Hinode (pronounced hi-node-ay) solar mission currently orbiting the Earth. The 5-year old spacecraft can see the sun in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray wavelengths, so it is especially adept at seeing multi-million degree solar plasma.

In this image, two large dark "coronal holes" can be seen.

As I've mentioned in previous articles, the solar atmosphere -- or "corona" -- is hotter than the sun's surface. For want of a better analogy, it's like having a light bulb that heats the air surrounding the glass bulb hotter than the bulb itself -- quite frankly, that wouldn't make much sense. The coronal heating mystery is still not solved, although solar physicists are closing in on possible heating mechanisms.

In this image, the spacecraft has imaged the solar corona in X-ray wavelengths, so only the hottest coronal plasma can be seen. The cooler plasma appears black in comparison.

The solar surface is twisted with magnetic field lines and within those magnetic loops (known, unsurprisingly, as "coronal loops") solar plasma is trapped, accelerated, heated and pulled back to the solar surface -- producing a phenomenon called "coronal rain."

These vast areas of magnetic twisting and trapped plasma heating are known as "active regions." A couple of active regions are prominent here, one of which is active right above a sunspot (as confirmed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) -- seen slightly below center-left.

But what are those huge black regions called, where there appears to be no hot plasma?

You guessed it, these are "coronal holes" and Hinode can see two huge cool coronal hole regions, one in the top-center of the image and the other at the bottom, crowning the polar region.

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These regions represent open magnetic field lines where solar plasma is being blasted into space. They act almost like a hosepipe, funneling solar plasma from the sun's interior into the fast solar wind, eventually reaching to the furthest-most reaches of the solar system.

But why are coronal holes so important?

Solar missions like Hinode, the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) all keep a close eye on coronal holes as they are right at the start of the space weather chain. Space weather prediction is critical to our hi-tech civilization, so knowing where these high-energy particles and powerful magnetic fields come from is of increasing importance.


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Author:  Sky [ Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:06 am ]
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Stunning Pic of the Week from SDO!!


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Double Play
This still from SDO caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the Sun popped off two events at once (Jan. 28, 2011). A filament on the left side became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare (mid-sized) and a coronal mass ejection on the right blasted into space. The movie (Jan. 26-28, 2011) shows several other flashes and bursting from the active region on the right as well. Neither event was headed towards Earth.


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