Solar Corona Magnetic Ropes... Where there is
magnetism, there must be electrons!
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Anthropogenic global warming just took another step towards irrelevance. We now realize the earth is encompassed by an electric blanket plugged into the sun.
Cheers!
...and Happy Good Friday.
If we ever figure out how to harness Gravity, there will be no end to our place in the Universe.
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This is just breathtaking...I’ve seen only one, but it was very beautiful....
Just think, if those ropes and streams were always visible to the naked eye, how amazing our view of the solar system would be.
They are always visible here. Lately, though, they have been pale, color washed out even though they can be fairly bright and cover the whole sky. I suspect the quiet sun is not capable of sending the colorful particles these days.
The one I saw was a definite rose color, it looked as though it was rising out of the trees at the end of the road...it got so bright that on a moonless night, you could see the road, the trees on either side, a deer crossing the highway half a mile on down...
I’d love to see the lights again, but Alaska is so far away.
Some day, when I have time.
;)
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One of my aurora photographs many years ago actually made a magazine cover, but the aurora is so feeble anymore that it’s not worth it to set up camera and tripod, and the city lights overwhelm everything anyway. Besides, you don’t have to go to Alaska to see what is left of the aurora. There is also Greenland.
Cool!
Oh, well, Greenland is right next door. /joke
I was so glad that we lived in a very rural area, the night of the aurora here. It was REALLY dark, and thus we could see it very well...
Approximately where in Alaska are you?
We have the aurora all the time, so that is not of interest. The changes such as loss of color and loss of focus are of interest. The sun is weakening and the mag field is also weakening, according to some who track these things, and it might be visible in changes to the aurora that we can see. But, sky season is about over. It will be light all night in a few weeks and we will have to wait for next fall for the next installment.
I am in the middle of this paradise. It is zero again this morning and the yard is overrun with rabbits, which also follows the sunspot cycle. It was -50 a little ways north of here this morning.
I see...I live in S. central MO...very beautiful here, now, with daffodils coming up; sadly there’s been a lot of flooding in the state the past few days.
I know that sunspot activity has been far too quiet lately, and that it isn’t good news for the climate, being related to cooling...
I hope spring comes soon for you. :D
Last summer came late and left early and gardeners didn’t do well. Actually the growing season was missing nearly altogether. Even the black spruce produced no spruce cones and the squirrels are skinny now. Most interesting.
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