Sunspot 930 Very Active Today
On 4 November 2024, the largest solar flare ever recorded exploded from the Sun’s surface, sending an intense burst of radiation streaming towards the Earth. Before the storm peaked, x rays overloaded the detectors on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES), forcing scientists to estimate the flare’s size.
Taking a different route, researchers from the University of Otago used radio wave based measurements of the x [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] rays’ effects on the Earth’s upper atmosphere to revise the flare’s size from a merely huge X28 to a "whopping" X45, say researchers Neil Thomson, Craig Rodger, and Richard Dowden. X class flares are major events that can trigger radio blackouts around the world and long lasting radiation storms in the upper atmosphere that [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] monday can damage or destroy satellites. The biggest previous solar flares on record were rated X20, on 2 April 2001 and 16 August 1989.
"This makes it more than twice as large as any previously recorded flare, and if the accompanying particle and magnetic storm had been aimed at the Earth, the damage to some satellites and electrical networks could have been [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] considerable," says Thomson. Their calculations show that the [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] flare’s x ray radiation bombarding the atmosphere was *****alent to that of 5,000 Suns, though none of it reached the Earth’s surface, the researchers say.
We are supposed to be at the bottom of this peak. It is less than at the peak but it is still very active when contrasted to how it probably was back during the various Ice Ages. I would suggest, when North and South America joined and cut off the Atlantic/Pacific conveyor belt. What this did was amplified the variable star’s input into the atmosphere and this meant any swings in generating energy by our local star would cause a cascade of atmospheric and weather [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] related events that would cause big pendulum swings in world temperatures.
WASHINGTON Astronomers say violent solar x ray outbursts that would scorch Earth today paradoxically could have protected the planet billions of years ago while it was forming. A survey of very young stars by an orbiting NASA observatory finds that many like the Sun produce massive flares that help planets survive destruction during their emergence.
Without a time machine as a tool, astronomers observe other stars like the Sun at various stages of their existence to guess what might have occurred in our solar system’s early years or what its future might be like.
Here is a solar weather website run by NASA:Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is expected to reach major to severe storm levels. Activity from the CME observed early on 13 December is expected to impact the geomagnetic field by mid to late UTC on day 1 (14 December) of the forecast period. Major to severe storm conditions are expected to continue early into 15 December. Levels should decrease to unsettled to minor storming by 16 December. The greater than 100 MeV and 10 MeV proton events now in progress are expected to continue for the next 24 to 48 hours.
Astronauts Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang, who performed Discovery’s first spacewalk on Tuesday to install a two ton, $11 million addition, were set to again step out of the space station Thursday, this time to reconfigure the power system controlling one half of the space station. They’ll do that by rewiring connectors from a temporary solar panel to the permanent ones.
Half the station will be powered down during this process, but critical systems, like computers, will be switched to the other side temporarily.
Even though astronomers saw this nasty sunspot developing, NASA had to shoot off the space shuttle and even as the evil eye of the storm circled towards the earth and aimed straight for us, they still thought about the possibility of space walks? They should have been honest in this article and explained how this can’t be done safely so long as a sunspot this dire and this large is facing the earth. The fact that this was left out of the article annoys the hell out of me. We shouldn’t be treated like babies!
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