WOW!!! -- CHECK OUT THE SUN | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1419067 United Kingdom 06/08/2011 05:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 'Quote' "STORM WARNING: NOAA forecasters estimate a greater than 25% chance of geomagnetic storms on June 9th. That's when a CME from the magnificent flare of June 7th is expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras." |
RTS User ID: 1388392 United States 06/08/2011 04:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to gothamist.com] Yesterday, NASA captured some really cool footage of the sun unleashing a massive solar flare, the biggest such eruption scientists have ever seen on the sun. According to Weather.com, it emitted "a spectacular coronal mass ejection. The cloud of particles covered an area of nearly half the sun's surface. A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation that can last from minutes to hours." Scientists told National Geographic they were amazed by the event: "This totally caught us by surprise. There wasn't much going on with this spot, but as it came from behind the sun, all of the sudden there was a flare and huge ejection of particles. We've never seen a [coronal mass ejection] this enormous," said astrophysicist Phillip Chamberlin of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, one of several spacecrafts that recorded the event. Maybe the sun was just trying to rebuild the ozone layer one poof at a time? Watch two different videos of the event below: [link to www.youtube.com] [link to www.youtube.com] |