Posted on 10/26/2014 8:09:43 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Solar radiation knocked out some radio communication on Earth yesterday It came from a giant sunspot seen on the surface of the sun recently
Sunspot AR12192 is 14 times larger than Earth and almost as big as Jupiter
The Met Office tells MailOnline it might be the largest sunspot in 25 years
It is so big that it can be seen in images of the sun from Earth's surface
This particular flare from the sunspot was brief but strong
It follows three days of severe storms on the sun
'It would seem to be just a matter of time before another strong explosion occurs,' said spaceweather.com's Tony Phillips
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If the Sun had a heart, we could set the controls to it.
It is so big that it can be seen in images of the sun from Earth's surface
A quick search tells me that the ancient Chinese observed sunspots with the naked eye in 364 BC. And sunspots were first observed telescopically in 1610.
Seeing a sunspot from the Earth's surface does not seem remarkable, but this one is "so big" you can actually see it! Perhaps part of the untold story here is that the sunspot cycle has been very quiet lately (possible sign of a Little Ice Age) and so sunspots of all sizes are not seen so frequently.
But perhaps that violates the Global Warming orthodoxy.
I found nothing in that article claiming that any satellites were "knocked out".
Foolish headline writers screw up again...
variations in solar output, as well as eccentricities in the earth's orbit and axial rotation are driving factors many multitudes beyond variation in greenhouse gases, and more specifically the CO2 green house gas which is an extremely miniscule greenhouse gas in volume compared to water vapor, and a far less potent greenhouse gas compared to, say, methane.
CO2, however, being a sometimes by product of civilization and capitalism, is a target for the greedy Big Government Statists whose primary objective is to steal individual freedom.
That's just the Daily Mail hyping the story a little. If they really wanted to juice it, they would have said "knocked up".
Huh? How would being awakened have juiced up a story in the Daily Mail? English slang is not American slang. English ladies don't get knocked up; they fall pregnant.
It appears the only thing left out of the article was a rousing THUNDERBIRDS GO!
More solar alarmism. But we get this every few months now, it seems.
It makes for nice journalistic drama.
OOOOPS. Thanks for the ‘English’ lesson.
;o)
Give it a few days until the liberals and socialists explain how it’s the fault of Bush and global warming - and we need more government regulation to prevent further sun spot activity.
And a survey of college students who will sign a petition calling for more government regulation of same.
In a Saucerful of Secrets?
I noticed a huge sunspot on Friday during the partial eclipse.
Yep, and I can see it from my front porch!! LOL
we now have some redundancy in communications satellites, just for such occasions
No mention of anyone being able to observe it at night.......
You’re right.
We had a solar flare of this size in 1990. X-3 is big, but not unprecedented. We’ve even recorded ones this big.
http://www.space.com/27540-huge-solar-flare-from-giant-sunspot.html
Not going to blame you for this, but this title is a straight-up lie. There were no satellites knocked out and it doesn’t even claim that in the article. In the article, it said that some amateur radios may have been messed up.
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