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  • Location: Shirley, Croydon, Greater London
  • Location: Shirley, Croydon, Greater London

Solar Flares to Continue Pounding Earth Until 2014

NASA says the solar region responsible for recent flares is growing larger and becoming more unstable.

The wave of solar storms that has pounded Earth over the past several weeks is only likely to get worse over the next year, according to a NASA scientist.

Sunspot 1429, the active region of the sun responsible for the flares, has been getting larger over the past several weeks, making it less stable and more likely for additional flares to erupt, which can cause damage to GPS satellites and electronic systems on our planet. NASA reported that the sunspot is now more than seven times the width of earth.

Read More Here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-201203131215usnewsusnwr201203120312flaresmar13,0,4562170.story

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

There's NASA failing in a prediction about solar activity again, then. Since that article on 13 March, 1429 has blown itself out and disintegrated.

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  • Location: frogmore south devon
  • Location: frogmore south devon

Ok if this is genuine then what have Nasa got to hide I mean half hour of outage yes but 3, 4, and 6 hours is seriously wrong

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

It happens quite often. There are times when Soho's not in earshot of any of the three ground stations, and there are often gaps in data.

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  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL
  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL

NASA / NOAA ARE HIDING FRAMES - APRIL 2012

You really need to check up on your facts Yamkin.

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2012/04/06/ahead/cor2/256/thumbnail.shtml

That is the link to the missing images.. My only logical conclusion is that someone is too gullible to spot the reality...

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  • Location: frogmore south devon
  • Location: frogmore south devon

You really need to check up on your facts Yamkin.

http://stereo-ssc.na...thumbnail.shtml

That is the link to the missing images.. My only logical conclusion is that someone is too gullible to spot the reality...

but if you look at images from 06-09-15 to 22-09-15 they are the same image repeated every hour, well that's what it looks like to me
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  • Location: Upper Tweeddale, Scottish Borders 240m ASL
  • Location: Upper Tweeddale, Scottish Borders 240m ASL

Conspiracy confirmed (says scientist*)

All this talk of missing data from the sun suggests that it is comet Elinin and the Dwarf planet that is hiding behind the comet ready to bring widespread floods, earthquakes and destruction. We need to be told what is really going on - afterall none of us are ever shown any respect by Governments and so-called scientific agencies, in that we all possess something called a memory and can use this little acknowledged skill of recall to remember how many conspiracies and world-dooming events have been covered up by the scientific establishment.

*The person quoted may not actually be a scientist, in fact they are more likely to be a guy sat in his bedroom who can make youtube videos.

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  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL
  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL

but if you look at images from 06-09-15 to 22-09-15 they are the same image repeated every hour, well that's what it looks like to me

If you open the pictures in separate tabs then flick between them, they animate.
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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

http://www.nrl.navy....w-solar-feature

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have discovered a previously unreported solar feature - Coronal Cells - where high-temperature coronal emission is confined to discrete plumes that extend upward from unipolar concentrations of magnetic flux. The NRL researchers think that future studies of these cellular regions will lead to an improved understanding of magnetic field line reconnection at the boundaries of coronal holes, and how these changes are transmitted outward into the solar wind.

The sun today..... (Date is wrong)

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

STORM CLOUD MISSES EARTH: A coronal mass ejection (CME) expected to hit Earth's magnetic field on April 9th seems to have missed. No signatures of an impact are evident in solar wind data. NOAA has downgraded the odds of a geomagnetic storm today to no more than 10%.

LAST AURORAS OF THE ARCTIC SEASON? These days, whenever Arctic sky watchers see the aurora borealis, they inevitably wonder if that was it--the last display until autumn. Spring has sprung and soon the midnight sun will overwhelm the Northern Lights. This photo taken April 9th in Blokken, Norway, illustrates the problem:

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"At midnight there was lots of light from the sunset," says photographer Frank Olsen. "And just an hour after this, the sunrise made the the horizon quite bright. These are probably our last auroras this season."

Famous last words? An incoming solar wind stream could trigger one more display this week before the midnight sun takes over. Aurora alerts: text, phone.

more images: from Ole C. Salomonsen of Tromsø, Norway; from Anne Fyhn of Grøtfjord, Tromsø, Norway; from Harald Albrigtsen of Grøtfjorden, Norway; from Sylvain Serre of Ivujivik, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada; from Yuichi Takasaka of Prelude Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada; from Göran Strand of Rörvattnet, Sweden;

ALMOST-BLANK SUN: In case you needed a reminder that this solar cycle is the weakest in decades, take a look at the solar disk. Today it's almost blank:

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Only last month, solar activity reached a fever pitch with

dumping enough energy in Earth's atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years. Such outbursts are consistent with predictions that solar maximum is only about one year away. Yet even on the threshold of Solar Max, the sun remains capable of deep quiet. Stay tuned for more ups and downs.

A nice recent video here...


http://vimeo.com/39791032

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  • Location: Upper Tweeddale, Scottish Borders 240m ASL
  • Location: Upper Tweeddale, Scottish Borders 240m ASL

STORM CLOUD MISSES EARTH: A coronal mass ejection (CME) expected to hit Earth's magnetic field on April 9th seems to have missed. No signatures of an impact are evident in solar wind data. NOAA has downgraded the odds of a geomagnetic storm today to no more than 10%.

No way! You mean this website with the dramatic youtube video, doom-mongering headlines and quite amazing mood music was wrong?!

Significant Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Is Earth Directed - 7th April 2012 - Update

I can't believe it.

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

I'm afraid this is just getting too silly.

Please can we get back to a sensible discussion about the sun which, during the current cycle, is generally very quiet except for the occasional flare or coronal hole. When we get a direct hit from an X20+ rated flare then it's time to use the superlatives.

Otherwise there is one very small spot on the sun and it's just another normal dismal and chilly April day.

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  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL
  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL

I'm afraid this is just getting too silly.

Does that mean you're not buying into the conspiracy stuff? Just you wait the the new world order takes over... You're a marked man.. :D

Please can we get back to a sensible discussion about the sun which, during the current cycle, is generally very quiet except for the occasional flare or coronal hole.

Yes but you missed the bit about the huge killer flare that NASA and NOAA are hiding from us... Oooo this is so exciting..

Annnnnnd........

Now back to reality and I have to say I'm in total agreement. Can we please refrain from posting conspiracy claptrap? There are plenty of sites on the internet that will allow you to be paranoid to your hearts content.

Factual posting only please..

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

Looks like the sun's had the clearasil out again, only 1 spot left. Calm befor the storm..?

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  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.
  • Location: Lower Brynamman, nr Ammanford, 160-170m a.s.l.

That's a good capture of the phenomenon Yamkin. What I find amazing is that prominences can sometimes be so big that they can be seen over the Moon's edge during a total solar eclipse.

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

NO CME, NO PROBLEM: A CME expected to hit Earth on April 9th missed, but the Arctic lit up with auroras anyway. Yuichi Takasaka sends this report from the Northwest Territories of Canada: "Even though the CME missed, we had three outbreaks of Northern Lights at Prelude Lake." Here is one of them:


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The source of the display was the IMF (interplanetary magnetic field), which tipped south on April 9th, opening a crack in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind poured in and fueled the auroras.


More Arctic lights are possible on April 13-14 when a high speed solar wind stream is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. NOAA forecasters estimate a 20% chance of geomagnetic storms around the poles.

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oSP4aOb94

MAGNETIC STORM: A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field, sparking a mild (Kp=5) geomagnetic storm around the poles on April 12-13. In Europe, Northern Lights descended as far south as Ireland:

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"The display burst into life for about 15 minutes around midnight, with shafts of light reaching skyward and visible lateral movement across the horizon," says photographer Daragh McDonough of Horn Head, Co. Donegal, Ireland. "I was very happy to have stayed out in the unseasonably cold April weather."

NOAA forecasters estimate a ~30% chance of more storms around the Arctic Circle during the next 24 hours as the solar wind continues to blow.

GROWING SUNSPOT: Almost directly facing Earth, sunspot AR1455 is growing rapidly. "This active region is becoming more interesting by the day and forms a nice group of sunspots now," says amateur astronomer Dennis Put who send this snapshot from Brielle, the Netherlands:

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The picture, which he took using an H-alpha telescope tuned to the red glow of solar hydrogen, captures the maelstrom of hot plasma and magnetism swirling atop the sunspot group's underlying dark cores. If the region continues to grow it could soon become a source of C-class solar flares.

Image taken: Posted Image Apr. 13, 2012 Posted Image Location: Posted Image Charlestown, County Mayo, Ireland Posted Image Details: Posted Image Hi Tony, Wow! Well the Equinox has lived up to it's expetations and delivered us a lovely auroral sub here on the West coast of Ireland. We have ben waitIng 8 year for such a event and you bet Nature finally gave us a treat. Posted Image

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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

LUCKY MAGNETIC STORM: A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field on April 12th, sparking a geomagnetic storm (Kp=5) that peaked during the early hours of Friday the 13th. Northern Lights were sighted over the USA as far south as Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin. In Beecher, Wisconsin, photographer Brian Larmay made this lucky shot of the International Space Station flying through the display:

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"The auroras were very impressive here in northeastern Wisconsin," says Larmay.

Another photographer, Shawn Malone of Marquette, Michigan, sends this report from the shores of Lake Superior: "The sky was ablaze in light. Northern lights were so bright they lit up the beach! It was an amazing night."

NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% to 40% chance of more geomagnetic activity during the next 24 hours as the solar wind continues to blow.


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  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.
  • Location: Derbyshire Peak District South Pennines Middleton & Smerrill Tops 305m (1001ft) asl.

WEEKEND AURORAS: For the third day in a row, a high-speed solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. On Saturday, April 14th, an intense burst of auroras appeared over Bodø, Norway:

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"The lights went from nothing to extreme in a very short time," says photographer Sindre Nedrevåg. "The background was pretty, too: There was Venus and a lot of stars, together with the colours of the sunset. The auroras became so intense that even 3 seconds of exposure wasn't fast enough with my Nikon D300s at ISO 640."

NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% to 40% chance of more geomagnetic activity during the next 24 hours as the solar wind continues to blow.


http://www.spaceweather.com/

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