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Spaceweather - CORONAL HOLE
NASA ^
| Jan. 30, 2011
| SpaceWeather.com
Posted on 01/30/2011 12:14:06 PM PST by The Comedian
CORONAL HOLE: A dark croissant-shaped hole has opened up in the sun's atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind into space. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture of the vast opening during the early hours of Jan. 30th:
Researchers call this a "coronal hole." Solar rotation is turning the coronal hole toward Earth. The stream of solar wind pouring from it will swing around and hit our planet in early February, possibly sparking polar magnetic storms. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras between Feb. 2nd and 4th.
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: corona; solar; sun
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Groundhog Day this year will bring us both a 100 million-person-affecting storm, and a solar storm.
Wear a parka and sunscreen as you freeze inside your Faraday cage.
To: SunkenCiv; CJ Wolf; houeto; Quix; null and void; B4Ranch; Whenifhow; Silentgypsy; FromLori; ...
Just-waiting-for-a-Feb.-2-earthquake-for-a-trifecta ping.
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Ping list dealing with odd space phenomena and solar events.
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Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:17:07 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
To: The Comedian
Dang! Look at those hemorrhoids!! Er, solarrhoids.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:18:24 PM PST
by
MIchaelTArchangel
(Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Time to break out the telescope
and the welding hood.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:18:24 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
To: The Comedian
Another Earth changing event happens Feb 3, 0300 Eastern: Pre-orders for the Verizon iPhone begin. :)
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:20:16 PM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: The Comedian
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:22:19 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: The Comedian
"Watch your coronal hole, bud."
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:23:33 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: The Comedian
We are all going to die!
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:24:28 PM PST
by
headstamp 2
("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
To: The Comedian
Please add me to your ping list for Space Energy & Solar Weirdness.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:24:45 PM PST
by
callisto
(It's the three T' s: Too Many Taxes, Trillions in Debt, and Transparency)
To: The Comedian
So basically Corholio broke wind?
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:26:16 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: The Comedian
Let’s all drink a Corona to the Coronal Hole.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:27:47 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Even the earth is bipolar.)
To: mnehring
LOL ! I was thinking of this and Beavis from Beavis & Butthead ! You beat me to it !
> So basically Corholio broke wind?
[ IMAGE of Beavis with shirt over part of head ]
To: The Comedian
"Wear a parka and sunscreen as you freeze inside your Faraday cage."
If the magnetic storms are intense enough, that'll be about right. ;-)
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:28:29 PM PST
by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
To: The Comedian
The stream of solar wind pouring from it will swing around and hit our planet in early February, possibly sparking polar magnetic storms. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras between Feb. 2nd and 4th. CQ, CQ .....
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:29:42 PM PST
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: usconservative
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:32:07 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: shibumi
“Oh, bloody hell...” ping
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:35:06 PM PST
by
Salamander
( I think I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest......)
To: The Comedian
This still from SDO caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the Sun popped off two events at once (Jan. 28, 2011). A filament on the left side became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare and a coronal mass ejection on the right blasted into space.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:37:22 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: The Comedian
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:43:41 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: dragnet2
Yeah, that was spectacular.
Solar activity definitely getting interesting.
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:52:56 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(It's 3am all over the planet.)
To: The Comedian
Hey, big guy add me to the space weirdness list. By the, alos on Ground Hog Day...a hugh and series Snowmegeddan event in the Ohio Valley and Northeast. A coinky dink?
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posted on
01/30/2011 12:55:05 PM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
(Newt Gingrich, he would rather sit on a couch with Nancy Pelosi, than stand with Sarah Palin.)
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