Active Sun Fires Off 3rd Huge Solar Flare in 3 Days (Video)

space.com ^ | October 28, 2013 11:16am ET | Tariq Malik, Managing Editor |

[BenLurkin]

The huge solar storm occurred late Sunday at 10:03 p.m. EDT (0203 Oct. 28 GMT). It registered as an X-class solar flare — the most powerful type of flare the sun has — and followed two back-to-back X-flares that erupted from the sun on Friday (Oct. 25). NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a video of the new X-class solar flare as it happened.

This latest solar flare erupted from an active sunspot region called AR1875 and triggered a strong radio blackout when it occurred, officials with the NOAA-run Space Weather Prediction Group explained in a status update. The flare also coincided with a massive explosion of super-hot solar plasma — called a coronal mass ejection, or CME — which should reach Earth by Oct. 30 and could trigger minor geomagnetic storms in the planet's magnetic field, they added

[BenLurkin]

Video at the link

[raybbr]

I’m guessing that if we ca see it’s profile it ain’t aimed at us?

[BenLurkin]

Not this time.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Question: If the sun emits a huge (X-Type) solar flare and there’s nobody around to hear it, it is still man-made global warming?

[LucianOfSamasota]

And how will this affect ‘global warming’?

Is the IPCC even discussing this type of activity?

[bigbob]

Solar Climate Change!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

So THAT explains my extra hot flashes this week! *SMIRK*

(No, seriously. My ‘theory’ here is as sound as Global Warming...)

[pgkdan]

I think the sun might be reacting eltrically to the approach of comet Ison. More evidence supporting Electric Universe theorists. Until the approach of Ison this solar max has largely been a dud.

[BenLurkin]

Yes.

[ZX12R]

I think the sun might be reacting eltrically to the approach of comet Ison. More evidence supporting Electric Universe theorists. Until the approach of Ison this solar max has largely been a dud.

If that is true, I wonder what will happen at closest approach to the sun.

[Crazieman]

It is not. Electric universe is hokum. Goreball warming has more credibility.

[Ingtar]

“Knowing” is half the battle won.

[pgkdan]

The dirty snowball theory of comets is hokum.

[ForGod'sSake]

It is not. Electric universe is hokum.

Zat so??? Support your statement or retract it. Junk science from the Scientific Community™ will not be entertained. Let's start with "dark" energy and "dark" matter. Follow some of these to add to your vast research archives:

Dark energy, etc

Picked this one out of the crowd, but it's typical:

Some of the implications of Plasma Cosmology

It's ELECTRIC!!!