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massive blast from solar sunspots ?

blacktalons · 2011-08-18 23:01:36

August 18, 2011 – DELICATO: With two big sunspots turning toward Earth and a variety of prominences dancing around the solar limb, the sun is attracting the attention of amateur astronomers. Alan Friedman sends this report from Buffalo, New York: “The activity on the Sun today was so diverse in intensity and character I…

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August 18, 2011 – DELICATO: With two big sunspots turning toward Earth and a variety of prominences dancing around the solar limb, the sun is attracting the attention of amateur astronomers. Alan Friedman sends this report from Buffalo, New York: “The activity on the Sun today was so diverse in intensity and character I was reminded of movements in a symphony. This very massive prominence (pictured below) was so very faint–almost invisible when others circling the limb were properly exposed. It’s delicate tendrils inspired the name Delicato.” Sunspot 1271 has developed a “beta-gamma-delta” magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. –Space Weather

We also now have directional coronal holes on the Sun which could aid in the propagation of a proton particle storm.

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