Been nice talking with you guys.

[Plane]

http://www.spaceweather.com/

   This won't necessacerily produce a massive flare.
If it does.

     It won't necessacerily be directed twards the Earth.
If it does.

      It won't necessacerily destroy a lot of our communications and power nets and grids, longlines and satilites.

    But in case it does ....

       Have a nice day!

       Catch you when it is over.

Solar forums all over the world are buzzing with Sun-stronomers proclaiming this to be the biggest prominence that many of them had ever witnessed," he says.

Remarkably, though, this is not the biggest thing. A dark filament of magnetism is winding halfway around the entire sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture during the early hours of Nov. 14th:



From end to end, this twisted fiber of magnetism stretches more than a million km or about three times the distance between Earth and the Moon. If the filament becomes unstable, as solar filaments are prone to do, it could collapse and hit the stellar surface below, triggering a Hyder flare. No one can say if the eruption of such a sprawling structure would be Earth directed. Solar flare alerts: text, phone

"I cant help but wonder what could possibly come next since we are still over a year away from the forecasted Solar Maximum," adds Ramsden. "There's never been a better time to own a solar telescope than now!"

SOLAR UPDATE: The wall of plasma on the sun's SE limb has shifted to a state of high activity. "The prominence is evolving very fast now!" reports Sylvain Weiller of Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse, France. This morning it looked like [the dinosaur] Diplodocus."

more images: from Pete Lawrence of Selsey, West Sussex, UK; from Kamil Kusinski of Wloszczowa, Poland; from Christoph Otawa of Geretsried, Bavaria, Germany; from Wouter Verhesen of Sittard, the Netherlands; from Roel Weijenberg of Wilp, The Netherlands; from Michael Borman of Evansville, Indiana; from Jesus Muñoz of Querétaro, México; from Alan Friedman of Buffalo, NY; from Theo Ramakers of Social Circle, GA; from John Stetson of Falmouth, Maine; from Randy Shivak of Elyria, OH; from Steve Riegel of Albuquerque, NM; from Robert Arnold of Ilse of Skye, Scotland;

[sirs]

How about that Aircraft carrier sized asteroid that just missed us    ;-)

[Plane]

How about that Aircraft carrier sized asteroid that just missed us    ;-)

     There are big rocks like that near missing us all the time , that particular one has probly been crossing our orbit every few years for many centurys.

   This solar prominance is a warning of a potential event of really massive proportions.

     Look at the size of that thing!

     The Earth wouldn't look like a flea on its back.

      If it pops the energy release would be big too.

      If it had been directed twards the pre electronic Earth we would not even be sure that something had happened, but this probly does hit the Earth every few centurys.

      If it pops and the ejection is not twards earth we will get a lightshow , no more.
      If it does not pop we will learn something new about the Sun.
      If it pops and the blast is coming our way , we will have a bit of time to discuss it and prepare, perhaps isolate some important systems and perhaps unplug a few things from the power supplys and from antennas.
       And prepare to launch a few new satilites, I wonder if it is too late to invest in Rockwell?

[Plane]

November 3

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/gallery/20111103-x1.9.html


› Play/Download video -- Note: This video has been slowed and loops 3 times.
A November 3, 2011 coronal mass ejection headed for Venus can be seen bursting off to the bottom right in this movie from the Solar Terrrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). The sun is blocked in this image – which is called a coronograph – to make it easier to see the light from the relatively dim solar atmosphere, the corona. This movie is from the low-resolution data provided by STEREO in real time; high resolution data from STEREO is available some 48 hours later. Credit: NASA/STEREO//The Sun Today 
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=15504&media_id=119115531

[sirs]

*wipes brow*

[Plane]

 

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[Plane]

*wipes brow*

It ain't over.

[Plane]

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Missed.
If a rifle bullet , a dump truck and a shotgun blast had narrowly missed me in less than two weeks I might be upsetaboutit.

 But when a city killer and two civilisation stoppers miss me I am merely interested.

I am strange.

Good thing we are all strange this way.

The eruption hurled a cloud of plasma into space, but not toward Earth. The only effect on our planet would be to disappoint observers hoping for a longer filament.

Meanwhile, a wall of plasma towering over the sun's SE limb is seething with activity and may be poised to erupt as well. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments. Solar flare alerts: text, phone

[Plane]

http://www.spaceweather.com/

SOLAR BLAST: A magnetic prominence dancing along the sun's southeastern limb became unstable on Nov. 15th and slowly erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the event, which unfolded over a period of thirteen hours:

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2011/16nov11/prom_anim.gif

The eruption hurled a cloud of plasma (CME) toward Venus. According to a forecast track created by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the cloud should reach the second planet on Nov. 17th. Venus has no global magnetic field to protect it from CMEs. The impact will likely strip a small amount of atmosphere from the planet's cloudtops. Solar flare...

Misses us , but Venus is hit twice in two weeks.

[Plane]

  The Sun is still at it.

GREAT FILAMENT: It's one of the biggest things in the entire solar system. A dark filament of magnetism measuring more than 800,000 km from end to end is sprawled diagonally across the face of the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took an ultraviolet picture of the structure during the late hours of Nov. 17th:

  If the filament becomes unstable, as solar filaments are prone to do, it could collapse and hit the stellar surface below, triggering a Hyder flare. Indeed, part of the filament already erupted on Nov. 16th, but Earth was not in the line of fire when the twisted lines of magnetism snapped. A similar event today would likely be geoeffective because of the filament's central location on the solar disk. Solar flare alerts: text, phone

[Xavier_Onassis]

We would be better off if the Sun were perfect, as Aquinas believed.

[Plane]

  I don't understand .

   What is "imperfect" about it?

    The Sun is awesome.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The Sun has a magnetic rift running down the middle of it.
I didn't say it was not awesome, I said it is not perfect.
Perfect would mean constant, uniform amounts of light and heat.

[Plane]

The Sun has a magnetic rift running down the middle of it.
I didn't say it was not awesome, I said it is not perfect.
Perfect would mean constant, uniform amounts of light and heat.

   You certainly are hard to please.


     The Sun is very good to us , has been for a long time,and all the appreacian you can come up with is to criticise his complexion?



      Thank God for the sun, it is a large gift, and looking a gift star in the mouth is rude.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I really doubt that the Sun will feel offended and put itself out.

There are advantages to knowing what perfection would be and what is perfect in the world around us.