What's up in space

[ktlight]

STRONG FLARE ACTIVITY CONTINUES: On Sept. 8th at 1546 UT, sunspot 1283 unleashed an M6-class solar flare. This continues the active region's 3-day trend of daily powerful eruptions. Yesterday's blast, an X1.8-class event, produced a bright flash of extreme UV radiation and hurled an inky-dark plume of plasma into space. Click to view the movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

Even a glancing blow can cause an earthquake


http://www.spaceweather.com/images2011/07sep11/inkydark.mov?PHPSESSID=lv1s8v2b7kapj7fkkumt96jbv4

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2011/07sep11/inkydark.mov?PHPSESSID=lv1s8v2b7kapj7fkkumt96jbv4

source
http://www.spaceweather.com/

[ghostrider]

ELENIN is making it's run to rise above the ecliptic. the solar system feels it . the next two or three weeks are going to be fun.