X-Flares

Miss Isness

Miss Isness

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MAJOR FLARE: Earth-orbiting satellites detected a major X9-class solar flare this morning at 1035 UT (5:35 a.m. EST). The source: big, new sunspot 929, which is emerging over the Sun's eastern limb. GOES-13 captured this X-ray image of the blast:

Because of the sunspot's location near the limb, the flare was not Earth-directed. Future eruptions could be, however, because the Sun's spin is turning the spot toward Earth. Sunspot 929 will be visible for the next two weeks as it glides across the solar disk.

Amateur astronomers, if you have a solar telescope, please monitor the active region and submit your photos. More eruptions are likely.
http://www.spaceweather.com/
 
There have been a number of flares recently from comet impacts. That is the reason why we are seeing a sudden uptick in the number of storms world wide. Sunspot 930 may also be the result of a comet strike but the feeds from SOHO were stopped on December 3rd for reasons that are unknown.

It is quite amazing and unbelievable how many comets are observed plunging into the sun and it is equally if not more unbelievable how NASA keeps calling these solar flares "coincidence" when they occur during a comet impact or close approach. What is happening to the sun is a harbinger of what we can expect and that IMO is precisely what NASA and the PTB do not want us to think!
 
Miss Isness said:
MAJOR FLARE: Earth-orbiting satellites detected a major X9-class solar flare this morning at 1035 UT (5:35 a.m. EST).
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I too "saw" it happening if the sites that I use as a sort of looking device can be trusted. So yes, there does seem to be an X-class flare. I noticed it when I checked this site 2 days ago:
http://www(dot)n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

So I went to ...
http://sohowww(dot)nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.gif

to SEE it happening.

I check both of these sites VERY regularly, to see the often violent explosions from the surface of the sun and from this I can tell that our sun has been very quiet as of the past months.

However, this time, with the measured X-rays, I don't see anything coming from the sun ? And that is the first time I see something like that.

If it was not earth directed, and not visible on http://sohowww(dot)nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.gif
,then why is it that our earth bound satellites are still picking it up ?

Snowwalker said:
Sunspot 930 may also be the result of a comet strike but the feeds from SOHO were stopped on December 3rd for reasons that are unknown.
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Well yes, it does go a little into the DEC 4, but it IS striking how short and fuzzy the gif animation is this time.
 
Wow, that's a great snapshot (comet coming in from below, a little to the left). Thanks Anart. I haven't seen that one yet, although I did save several of other interesting gif animations.

By now, December 8, I think it is clear that the X-rays did come from the sun.

But still the http://sohowww(dot)nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.gif ,only goes into some shots of December 4. By now, Dec 8, one frame has been added though. It seems to become interesting: so much (solar?) garbage flying around.

Edit: No, wait a minute. They added 1 frame, but there are so many frames MISSING. All shots of Dec 5 and 6, and probably also some of Dec 4 and 7 are absent. See
http://sohowww(dot)nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-c3.html

Maybe the communication was disturbed too much.
 
Interesting article just popped up on Yahoo - http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061208/sc_space/scientistsspottsunamionthesun

this link is especially interesting... http://www.space.com/php/multimedia...USAF+Research+Laboratory+via+Spaceweather.com

here is the article body...

Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
SPACE.com 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
A major flare on the Sun earlier this week generated what scientists are calling a solar tsunami.

The tsunami-like shock wave, formally called a Moreton wave, rolled across the hot surface, destroying two visible filaments of cool gas on opposite sides of the visible face of the Sun.

Astronomers using a prototype of a new solar telescope in New Mexico recorded the action.

"These large scale 'blast' waves occur infrequently, however, are very powerful," said K. S. Balasubramaniam of the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Sunspot, NM, "They quickly propagate in a matter of minutes covering the whole Sun, sweeping away filamentary material."

It is unusual to see such an event from a ground-based observatory, Balasubramaniam said. And it was also unusual that it occurred near solar minimum, when the Sun is at its least active during an 11-year cycle.

But solar activity can come at any time. Flares like this one are spawned by sunspots, which are dark, cool regions that cap magnetic activity below. When the caps pop, colossal doses of superheated matter and radiation are unleashed.

Sunspot 929 began kicking up flares Tuesday, when a major X-9 event was detected by a space-based observatory.

When another flare erupted Wednesday, the NSO's Optical Solar Patrol Network (OSPAN) was watching.

A shock wave propagated like the splash from a rock thrown into a pond. This was seen as a brightening from compressed and heated hydrogen gas. Astronomers enhanced the contrast of the images to bring out the detail, and they created an animation of the event.

Later, the shock wave swept across two dark filaments widely seprated on the solar surface, and they disappeared for a few minutes. Scientists are unsure whether the filaments were blown off or were compressed so they were temporarily invisible, according to an NSO statement.

Forecasters say there is a 40 percent chance of more major flares through this weekend. Skywatchers in Alaska, Canada and the very northernmost United States should be on the lookout for colorful Northern Lights generated by the space storminess.
 
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