The Sun Now

[Mandala]

I guess Michio Kaku was right that initially, they got it wrong. I remember him saying that the next few years would be a low solar flare cycle. Then he said, we got it wrong, it will be a very active solar cycle, possibly some large CMEs.

(AOL April 22) -- Your mother may have told you to never stare at the sun. But you won't be able to look away from the first set of stunning images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

The pictures taken by the 3-ton satellite, which was thrown into the Earth's orbit three months ago, show our nearest star up close and in ultra-fine detail. Arcs of superheated plasma are captured as they erupt from the sun's surface and soar tens of thousands of miles into space. Waves of charged gas are seen rippling out across the star's surface, traveling at 500,000 miles an hour. And ultraviolet cameras capture the swirls and turbulence at the heart of the raging inferno.

While other high-definition satellites have snapped small segments of the sun's surface before, the SDO can observe the entirety of the solar disc. As well as seeing the big picture, it can also zoom in and pick out features as small as 220 miles across. (Pretty impressive, when you realize that the sun is some 90 million miles away.)

"These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in more than 40 years of solar research," said Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA.

[Chrononaut]

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...r10_plasmarain

Very interesting!

[Lucid Jia]

Massive CME just happened...





http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c2/512/

Namaste, Jia.

[bashi]

A very strange filament is developing:

[rosie]

bashi, I am not sure what you are looking at Can you give a link to what site you downloaded the pic from?

[bashi]

Posted by rosie (here)
bashi, I am not sure what you are looking at Can you give a link to what site you downloaded the pic from?

It was on the http://www.spaceweather.com/ ,

but they have removed the link. It looked just too scary, i think.


Ok, here it is : http://www.spaceweather.com/archive....h=05&year=2010

and http://www.spaceweather.com/submissi...1274104070.jpg




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[MorningSong]

Here you can see the solar filament at the NW :

[Etherios]

what might this bring?

[Thodin303]

First article I saw on yahoo this morning. More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead.

[RAKMEiSTER]

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...0000_Ic_4k.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...Ic_flat_4k.jpg


http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p.../f0304pfss.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...ster/f0304.jpg
4096x4096p all images goto pic direct to see and enlarge full size


Sunspot 1175 / Solar Update (March 19) + forecast
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...386#post179386



and where will others be (can choose date centre/orbit/angle etx)
http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/STEREOorb..._murakami.html

[linz2d]

The sun must of tripped over a stone in its path today... looks like things are beginning to pick up again.

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Hi

Just wanted to post some linked pictures with additional views of the Sun's current state.

1) View of all the active regions on the Sun on the Earth Side. The region marked with darker shade of yellow is the part of sun directly facing Earth. A Sun rotates regions in this picture move from left to right.

Source: http://www.raben.com/sites/default/f...iveRegions.png

2) View of all the active regions on the Sun on the Far Side. A Sun rotates regions in this picture move from right to left.

Source: http://www.raben.com/sites/default/f...iveRegions.png

3) Key code explanation for both. Numbers are official region numbers.

Source: http://www.raben.com/sites/default/f...aps/vsikey.jpg
Taken from Raben Systems site: http://www.raben.com/maps/

4) Below is a link to NOAA past 7 days Suns events warnings timeline
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/alerts_timeline.html
Unfortunately images are generated with unique names so it is not so easy to just embed them. They look like that:


Source: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/grap...line_22317.png

5) Below is a link to a web page displaying plot of past 7 day history of effective sunspot number (SSNe)
http://www.nwra.com/spawx/ssne24.html
Unfortunately images are generated with unique names so it is not so easy to just embed them. They look like that:


Source: http://www.nwra.com/spawx/ssne24_099002.gif

[hdthewise]

how do i work out the time i live in Oklahoma and am central time every thing is UT time some people say 7, 8,&6 hours.
also what is the length time the Cme's takes to get here is it 7,6,5 days i know i sound stupid but i have had back surgery to get my legs to work better and they have me on some weird meds my thought process is way off lol writing this i had to draft it in note pad then paste took me 30 Min's to write i am confined to a chair and and bed. i can go for walks but its cold here and that doesn't do well with all the hard ware they put in me it gets quite cold any way if you have time or some web page it would be appreciated.