Piece of sun breaks off, stuns scientists:
‘Very curious’
New York Post,
by
Brooke Kato
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/10/2023 11:56:36 PM
Scientists were left baffled after material broke off of the sun’s surface and created a tornado-like swirl around its northern pole.
The remarkable phenomenon was caught by NASA on the James Webb Space Telescope and tweeted by Dr. Tamitha Skov, a space weather forecaster.
“Talk about Polar Vortex!” she wrote last week. “Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
formerNYer 2/11/2023 12:14:37 AM (No. 1400080)
solar warming
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 2/11/2023 12:29:50 AM (No. 1400086)
Did the remains look anything like a horse, with wings?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2023 12:37:50 AM (No. 1400090)
And yet, the climate scammers continue to deny that the sun could possibly have a major effect on Earth's climate.
Human activities have no significant effect on global climate.
The activity of the sun, which we understand about as well as apes understand calculus, has a huge effect on global climate. Always has, always will.
Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. And the climate scam is NOT "science" it is political fraud.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Axeman 2/11/2023 1:12:13 AM (No. 1400103)
Pieces of the sun are always breaking off. They mostly cascade back to the surface. Some get ejected into space, solar storms. This one got caught in a jet stream kind of vortex, like our polar jet stream vortex that is almost always there. Not even close to a tight tornado vortex which are always happening on the sun. It lit up the current in the solar atmosphere so we could see it. Very useful for making measurements. Nice coincidence. Nothing more noteworthy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 2/11/2023 1:34:10 AM (No. 1400122)
Aren't these called solar flares?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Catherine 2/11/2023 1:34:40 AM (No. 1400123)
Don't we call these solar flares?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono 2/11/2023 2:18:07 AM (No. 1400133)
My guess is that it's just a really long prominence, revealing to solar researchers a dynamic of the sun's magnetic fields that hadn't been observed before.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2023 2:48:16 AM (No. 1400136)
Re #5 and 6, I think these are correctly called "coronal mass ejections". They are potentially harmful to our power grid, sort of a "solar EMP", although there are three parts to a nuclear weapon induced EMP, called E1, E2 and E3, each with a different technical character. The sun puts out E2 and E3 type of things, not E1, which is potentially the hardest to shield from.
In any case....the good news is that these can be ejected in any random direction from the sun. Imagine a ball with radial lines running out from the center like a pincushion or sea urchin, sort of. The CME could travel along any one of those infinity of directions....and we are 93 million miles away, and while these flares happen fairly regularly, the chance of Earth being hit directly by any single one is pretty low, just random luck.
A direct hit by a very energetic CME could cause serious power grid and electronic disruptions on the side of Earth that was towards the storm. But - so far, we have lucked out. Quebec had damage to their power grid from a CME in 1989. The biggest recorded was in 1859.....so not a lot of power grid or electronics damage, since only telegraph existed and was pretty resistant to power surges.
With a major CME, our satellites and astronauts on the Space Station could be harmed, and the power grid could be damaged somewhat, and maybe lose GPS nav capabilities - potentially harmful to aircraft navigation at critical times.
But, we've never been hit hard with a CME recently, so we can only calculate and estimate what the exact effects would be. Certainly bright aurora in areas far to the south of where these are normally seen would happen - fancy light shows. But possibly some bad things, too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kbcama 2/11/2023 4:01:16 AM (No. 1400141)
I appreciate those who have made have the knowledge and made technical comments here. But I wonder how many times before we had the means to watch that stuff like this has happened to our star. I'm just a little ole grandmother from the south but I'm not too worried about this. Not much we can do about it any way right? I guess the secret government people preparing the secret spaceship to get all the "right" people saved have gone into overdrive though! (Ok - I like science fiction 😜!)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
watashiyo 2/11/2023 4:29:23 AM (No. 1400146)
F-22 missed the target over Alaska and hit the sun.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/11/2023 4:39:50 AM (No. 1400151)
You better start looking around to see what caused the phenomynum.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Safari Man 2/11/2023 5:23:27 AM (No. 1400161)
The only way to deal with this is with higher taxes.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 2/11/2023 6:27:50 AM (No. 1400169)
Wasn't there a "Twilight Zone" episode about this??
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Sully 2/11/2023 6:54:39 AM (No. 1400182)
#11 Bingo!
There must be some way to leverage this into the climate control freak effort. I'm guessing "pig farts." No one's come after our pork yet.
JohnKerry will tell us we must all stop eating bacon if we want to save the Sun. Not the folks at Davos, but the rest of us, of course. The Sun could proly survive enough pig farts for to sustain the folks at Davos. But no one else!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mobyclik 2/11/2023 7:52:01 AM (No. 1400219)
I think there are just too many SUV's on the sun.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/11/2023 8:09:45 AM (No. 1400235)
This shows us what God can do when He wants to. The Bible says this world will pass away, and a new heaven and earth will replace it; there won't be any need for the sun in that new world. It will be lit by God's aura, His glory. Amazing to think about!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
southernboy 2/11/2023 8:21:49 AM (No. 1400254)
"Scientists are stunned!" Seems they are "stunned," "amazed," "surprised" often these days. Usually when some event comes along that doesn't fit in to their preconceived ideas of what is happening in this universe.
Open minds would help...but it's difficult to find one these days!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
paral04 2/11/2023 8:28:04 AM (No. 1400261)
It's headed for earth and we need to all give up our possessions to the government who will save us.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 2/11/2023 8:48:00 AM (No. 1400293)
The Sun is what the Sun is and it will do whatever it wants without our permission. Don’t lose any sleep over it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 2/11/2023 8:57:23 AM (No. 1400302)
I did not know gas came in pieces that could 'break off'.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/11/2023 9:09:52 AM (No. 1400317)
Strikes me we have heard of this before.
Main difference is this might be the first time we actually saw it happen.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/11/2023 9:13:42 AM (No. 1400322)
Now that Climate Change and GW have been exposed as horse apples, surely some enterprising leftist scientist can manufacture a crisis out of an exploding sun and create the proper tax to fight it?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
fingerpicker 2/11/2023 9:14:15 AM (No. 1400324)
Humans are so smart powerful, enough to both destroy Earth with capitalism and "fix" Earth with ???
Hey, we invented CA glue. Maybe we use that to patch the Sun and, while we're at it, patch up all those nasty earthquake-prone faults.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/11/2023 9:30:24 AM (No. 1400334)
Corona ejections are normal Solar occurrences. Nothing here move along.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/11/2023 9:41:09 AM (No. 1400345)
Meanwhile Asteroid 2005 ED224 54m diameter and travelling at around 60,000 mph is due to cross Earth's orbit March 11.
A bit earlier than the ides if March but be ready to duck
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As long as the sun is still showing up, now worries. It means God has not yet reached HIs limit with the people of this world.
"Behold, the day of the Lord comes,....For the stars of heaven and their constellations
will not give their light; the sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
....I will halt the arrogance of the proud, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
privateer 2/11/2023 10:05:48 AM (No. 1400378)
Police are baffled. But scientists, being so much smarter, are stunned.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 2/11/2023 10:06:18 AM (No. 1400379)
I’m so thankful that the Great Creator & Sustainer of the universe is in control, & that He has provided a Book of commands & instructions to prepare intelligent life on this earth for help through any eventuality & salvation from every inevitability. I’m thankful that it guarantees eternal peace & safety with Him in that better land, beyond our heavens, that awaits all those in this temporary realm who have followed its guidance & obeyed its instructions.
Those who haven’t observed & obeyed, & who spend a lot of time fretting over things that are ultimately beyond their control, have far & away more to be concerned about than they know. Sadly, for them, it is something that they could actually do something about, if they would only give attention to it. [“For Your mercy is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the clouds.” Psalm 108:4]
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
czechlist 2/11/2023 10:51:35 AM (No. 1400410)
apology for 2nd post but I forgot to mention asteroid 2005 YY128 is predicted to cross Earth's orbit sometime next week.
Someone needs to interpret some of that Nostradamus stuff
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
jimkata 2/11/2023 10:54:40 AM (No. 1400413)
If science is 'stunned' then scientist have become a lot dumber than when I learned about solar flares in junior high.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
DVC 2/11/2023 10:59:50 AM (No. 1400419)
Re #9. Excellent point. We can do exactly NOTHING about what the sun does. We can't change it and we can't move Earth to dodge. More taxes or more government regulations - will not change it one iota.
Life on Earth is made possible by the giant magnetic field which redirects high energy charged particles flowing out from the sun away from our biosphere. That's certainly something in the creation that was made to make Earth habitable. So many things about our planet are "just so" which make our atmosphere stable for the long term, unlike Mars - too small to hold on to it's atmosphere. And we have a molten iron core, and we spin, which evens out the temperatures, and creates our magnetic shield. The more I have learned in science the more I believe in a Creator. I mean REAL science not the political "sciency" BS that is used to batter us into submission just like witch docs did long ago. Dr. Fraud's "science" and Al Gore's "climate science" are lies and oppression, not real science.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 2/11/2023 11:03:15 AM (No. 1400424)
Beautiful, #31.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/11/2023 11:39:34 AM (No. 1400445)
and here we have the latest edition of scientific misinformation in our recorded history which will be the next cause of climate change - what will they think of next?
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/11/2023 12:03:06 PM (No. 1400459)
Yes, #13! The sun was getting hotter or moving closer, and everyone was going to die. Turned out it was just one woman’s fever dreams. Great episode.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/11/2023 1:03:57 PM (No. 1400481)
What if the rest of it breaks off? What will we do? What will we do? We here on earth caused it, of course. Humanity is the cause of all intergalactic trouble. Growlin' Al Gore taught us to think this way by not thinking and studying Marxist pseudoscientific agit prop, same as he does. It's the perfect antidote to religion. Incidentally, if the sun happened to blow up, we would find out about it in eight minutes.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
hershey 2/11/2023 2:03:02 PM (No. 1400507)
Time means nothing to the aliens...this is payback for us downing the 'balloon' over Roswell back in the 40's.....
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