Spectacular Solar Event -- Evolving ! -- 7 June 2011
June 7, 2011
This morning around 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted.
The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and a massive CME.
A recording of the blast from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ranks as one of the most beautiful and dramatic movies of the SDO era:
CLICK HERE TO SEE MOVIE CLIP OF THIS BEAUTIFUL ERUPTION
more movies: YouTube; 5 MB mpeg; 2 MB Quicktime
A video with commentary from solar physicist C. Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows material splashing back to the stellar surface. "I've never seen material released this way before," he says in the video. "It looks like someone kicked a clod of dirt in the air--an amazing, amazing event."
C. ALEX YOUNG - NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
3-minute commentary on this spectacular solar event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJN0hWMrugE&feature=youtu.be
Coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are still monitoring the CME as it billows away from the sun. Watch the cloud expand. The speckles are caused by energetic charged particles hitting the camera's CCD array. This is what we mean by a "radiation storm"; the particles were accelerated by the explosion and are now peppering Earth-orbiting satellites and spacecraft like SOHO.
Although the blast was not squarely Earth-directed, it will affect our planet. The CME should deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of June 8th or June 9th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the CME arrives.
source | www.spaceweather.com
an added comment of inspiration from......
A Note by Imzaia.com
Solar changes, Earth changes, cosmic changes, body changes, ascension symptoms...
all indicate the same evolution happening on each and every different level of reality,
all the way to the supposedly 'smallest' parts of 'ourselves': cellular changes, DNA changes...
and right into changes in the way we think, our belief systems, how we identify ourselves personally and as a species.
All of these things to say: watch the sun, expect evolution!
Expect the miracle in YOUR LIFE in the next days, and see it unfold -- EVERYWHERE.
This is the promise our beloved Sun shows us today.
http://lightworkers.org/blog/133450/spectacular-solar-event-evolving-7-june-2011
FEATURED MOVIE
- Beautiful Solar Eruption, STEREO-B 2012-03-12
- A closeup view of a beautiful solar eruption shooting out into space as seen by NASA's STEREO-B on March 12, 2012. The orange image is of extreme ultraviolet light, while the part of the image in green is from a different STEREO telescope showing visible light beyond the edge of the solar disk.
MONSTER WAVES ON THE SUN ARE REAL
November 24, 2009: Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft are telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar tsunami."
Years ago, when solar physicists first witnessed a towering wave of hot plasma racing along the sun's surface, they doubted their senses. The scale of the thing was staggering. It rose up higher than Earth itself and rippled out from a central point in a circular pattern millions of kilometers in circumference. Skeptical observers suggested it might be a shadow of some kind—a trick of the eye—but surely not a real wave.
"Now we know," says Joe Gurman of the Solar Physics Lab at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Solar tsunamis are real."
The twin STEREO spacecraft confirmed their reality in February 2009 when sunspot 11012 unexpectedly erupted. The blast hurled a billion-ton cloud of gas (a "CME") into space and sent a tsunami racing along the sun's surface. STEREO recorded the wave from two positions separated by 90 degrees, giving researchers an unprecedented view of the event...
PICTURE OF THE MOMENT
- Jupiter and Galilean moons observed
No one has been able to observe Jupiter and its moons for some time as it is too close to the Sun, but that did not stop the STEREO (Behind) COR1 coronagraph from capturing it and its four major moons over a 30-hour period (March 15-16, 2009). If you look carefully, you can identify three of its moons close to Jupiter, and even discern how their positions change as the movie progresses. Those with keen eyes can see the fourth moon, Callisto, as a fainter object well to the right of the others. These four moons are known as the Galilean moons, because they were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Jupiter itself is largely saturated in the movie, to bring out the moons and the faint solar corona. The solid dark green area on the right is the coronagraph?s occulting disk that blocks out the Sun and some of its bright atmosphere to that our instrument can see fainter structure just beyond the Sun. The thin, white line inside of that indicates the actual size of the Sun. By coincidence, a coronal mass ejection is seen blasting a white cloud of charged particles out into space during much of the clip. We have not seen many solar storms of late as the Sun is near its low point in its solar activity cycle.
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