FYI, Keep an Eye on the Sky

Some solar activity that may affect us. Stuff is close enough to possibly ring some bells, so you may want to give it a look. I think it's worth the time.

This is a great website. SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

 

Cool site.

 

Nope I don't need any of that stuff, the government will take care of me.

 

I have been watching this for two days. Just a matter of time until one gets us. Another good site: Space Weather Enthusiasts Dashboard | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

There is an app you can get to receive real time alerts on this stuff. This a screen shot from yesterday's alert of the current event. It's just called the Disaster Prediction App.

 

That's nothing.
Did you see the 3 earth sized "death stars" that pulled up to the sun, dropped dip tubes, appeared to "refuel" for approximately 80 hours then pulled away?
Think it was back in 2012 or 2013.
Nasa said it was a solar flare.
Surprised they didn't go with "weather ballon".

 

@oil pan 4 Can you share those pictures?

 

It's a sun weather ballon.
Nothing strange happening, move along.

 

Our stupid monkey brains allow for us to build remote control space craft.
Something unthinkable, impossible and laughable 100 years ago.

The star that is the size of Saturn, also impossible.
Our physics say the smallest a star can be is approximately 30x the mass of Jupiter.
But there it is.
Awfully inconvenient.
So we are left with but 2 possibilities.
1 we were wrong by a lot and really have absolutely no idea how anything in the universe works.
2 our physics are correct and that star not a natural formation and it was artificially made.

Both appear to be equally impossible.

Also the newest sun probe on its way to the sun right now is going to be 4 million miles from the surface of the sun. Which didn't seem doable even 20 years ago.

 

Ian Griffin sends this report from New Zealand: "I was observing at Hoopers Inlet on the Otago Peninsula when a fabulous outburst of aurora occurred just after the CME from sunspot AR2665 hit." Today

 

I would like to see that. I did, once in North East Texas of all places. Driving back to college late one night headed north and I keep seeing a glow in the sky I did not understand. Pulled over to the side of the road and watched it for a while. It was March 24 1969. The only reason I know the date is from looking back at the solar storm history that year. It was pretty cool to a Texas boy.

 

A fast, far-sided halo CME was observed beginning at 04:36 UTC on 23 July in coronagraph imagery. The event originated from old Region 2665 (S06, L=111) which was responsible for two M-class flares during its rotation across the visible disk. The imagery above shows the event as seen from the NASA STEREO A spacecraft (left and right images) and the coronagraph on the NASA SOHO spacecraft (center). This CME is on the opposite side of the Sun and will not be geoeffective.

This was X-Class from the same sun spot which produces the flares that originated this thread. Had it fired this one while moving across the visible disk, the moment of truth would have arrived from what I understand.

 

Well NASA says there is something like a 13% chance of another Carrington event ever solar cycle (11 years).

So it's only a matter of when, not if.

 

We're overdue for a major X class flare, then again, we're overdue for Yellowstone to go off. If the little fat boy doesn't go nuts first, the good Lord may see fit to do a cull of the herd.