COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN On August 1st

Green_Manalishi

Jedi Master
_http://www.spaceweather.com/ said:
COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN: On August 1st, the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. There was a C3-class solar flare, a solar tsunami, multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more. Click on the image to view just a fraction of the action:

The movie recorded by extreme UV cameras onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows an enormous magnetic filament breaking away from the sun. Some of the breakaway material is now en route to Earth in the form of a coronal mass ejection (CME).

Seeing the sun erupt on such a global scale has galvanized the international community of solar physicists. Researchers are still sorting out the complex sequence of events and trying to understand why they all happened at once. Stay tuned for more movies and analyses in the days ahead.

I searched SOTT and didn't find anything about this. By what i can gather i think scientists are believing the sun i starting to reawaken. There is a aurora show "schedule" for tonight:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100803/sc_space/spectacularnorthernlightsshowsignalssuniswakingup said:
Skywatchers at high latitudes could be in for a spectacular treat of northern lights, the aurora borealis, Tuesday and Wednesday: After a relatively quiet stretch, it appears the sun is ramping up its activity.

The sun's surface erupted early Sunday, blasting - tons of plasma (ionized atoms) into space. These atoms are headed toward Earth and could create a stunning light show in the process.

"This eruption is directed right at us and is expected to get here early in the day on Aug. 4th," said Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."

Taking the bold part in the first quote it seems it was a very rare kind of eruption, which can possibly have very rare consequences down here. Guess we´ll just have to wait and pay attention.
 
Green_Manalishi said:
Taking the bold part in the first quote it seems it was a very rare kind of eruption, which can possibly have very rare consequences down here. Guess we´ll just have to wait and pay attention.

Very interesting.

You say it's rare, so when was the last time it happened?
 
Thanks, Green_Manalishi.

This was posted on SOTT somewhere on Suday/Monday:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/212997-Complex-Eruption-on-the-Sun-Sends-Coronal-Mass-Ejection-toward-Earth

together with this one:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/213043-Nasa-says-large-CME-on-Sun-headed-for-Earth-Expected-Arrival-August-3rd
 
Galaxia said:
Green_Manalishi said:
Taking the bold part in the first quote it seems it was a very rare kind of eruption, which can possibly have very rare consequences down here. Guess we´ll just have to wait and pay attention.

Very interesting.

You say it's rare, so when was the last time it happened?

Green Manalishi is saying that from what he has put in bold in the quotation from the news story , it makes him think it is rare , not a statement from Green Manalishi personally saying it is rare.

Reading the bolded quotations from the story , I would also get the same impression.
Has this kind of combined activity happened , been recorded before ?
 
Galaxia said:
You say it's rare, so when was the last time it happened?

I'll have to make Away With The Fairys words my own. Since the researchers were "still sorting out the complex sequence of events and trying to understand why they all happened at once", my guess was it was an event that doesn't happen very often. Even perhaps never before witnessed by modern time scientists since it seems they were so amazed, but that is a conclusion that cannot be taken from this piece of news, it would be stretching it a bit too much.
 
Away With The Fairys said:
Reading the bolded quotations from the story , I would also get the same impression.
Has this kind of combined activity happened , been recorded before ?

New Scientist, for example, uses the word "unusual":

_http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19252-the-sun-sends-a-charged-cloud-hurtling-our-way.html
An unusually complex magnetic eruption on the sun has flung a large cloud of electrically charged particles towards Earth. When the cloud hits, which could be anytime now, it could spark aurorae in the skies around the poles and pose a threat to satellites – though probably not a particularly severe one.

There is this historic event:

Telegraphs Ran on Electric Air in Crazy 1859 Magnetic Storm
_http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/telegraphs-ran-on-electric-air-in-crazy-magnetic-storm-150-years-ago/

On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operators’ lines were overflowing with current, so they unplugged the batteries connected to their machines, and kept working using just the electricity coursing through the air.

In the wee hours of that night, the most brilliant auroras ever recorded had broken out across the skies of the Earth. People in Havana and Florida reported seeing them.[...]

In terms of the relationship between the Earth and its star, it is probably the weirdest 24-hours on record. People struggled to explain what had happened.

Oh, and just for the record, today I've been having slight vertigo, even while sitting. Thought that it was due to a heat, but the heat is no different from other days here. So maybe completely unrelated. But since I am usually sensitive to the changes in barometric pressure or other weather changes, maybe cosmic weather has some sort of influence as well. But can be something else entirely, of course.
 
Here's some more:

GOES Proton Flux is beginning to climb. This is an event that has not happened in a long time:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.html


Nasa scientists braced for 'solar tsunami' to hit earth

The earth could be hit by a wave of violent space weather as early as Tuesday after a massive explosion on the sun, scientists have warned.

By Andrew Hough
Published: 9:00PM BST 02 Aug 2010

Massive explosion ripples across the sun
The solar fireworks at the weekend were recorded by several satellites, including Nasa’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory which watched its shock wave rippling outwards.

Astronomers from all over the world witnessed the huge flare above a giant sunspot the size of the Earth, which they linked to an even larger eruption across the surface of Sun.

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The explosion, called a coronal mass ejection, was aimed directly towards Earth, which then sent a “solar tsunami” racing 93 million miles across space.

Images from the SDO hint at a shock wave travelling from the flare into space, the New Scientist reported.

Experts said the wave of supercharged gas will likely reach the Earth on Tuesday, when it will buffet the natural magnetic shield protecting Earth.

It is likely to spark spectacular displays of the aurora or northern and southern lights.

"This eruption is directed right at us," said Leon Golub, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

"It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."

Scientists have warned that a really big solar eruption could destroy satellites and wreck power and communications grids around the globe if it happened today.

Nasa recently warned that Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”.

The Daily Telegraph disclosed in June that senior space agency scientists believed the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013.

It remains unclear, however, how much damage this latest eruption will cause the world’s communication tools.

Dr Lucie Green, of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Surrey, followed the flare-ups using Japan's orbiting Hinode telescope.

"What wonderful fireworks the Sun has been producing,” the UK solar expert said.

“This was a very rare event – not one, but two almost simultaneous eruptions from different locations on the sun were launched toward the Earth.

"These eruptions occur when immense magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere lose their stability and can no longer be held down by the Sun's huge gravitational pull. Just like a coiled spring suddenly being released, they erupt into space.”

She added: "It looks like the first eruption was so large that it changed the magnetic fields throughout half the Sun's visible atmosphere and provided the right conditions for the second eruption.

"Both eruptions could be Earth-directed but may be travelling at different speeds.

“This means we have a very good chance of seeing major and prolonged effects, such as the northern lights at low latitudes."
 
This is NASA's page on a recent event.....


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/

this was really big.

I've been trying to find a link to an article I have as a PDF document called -

The Coming: A Boeing Whistleblower’s Warning
Will a Massive Celestial System Change Our Solar System?

If I find it I'll post it.

LOL. I found it, this makes some very interesting reading. Seems to confirm the reality of our solar system being a binary system.

_http://www.greatdreams.com/boeingwhistleblower-2010.pdf

I watch an interview of another source recently, who stated the same thing, that the solar system IS a binary system and the binaries are the norm.
 
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