Space Weather

[Last Samurai]

I googled super solar flare one night and did some research on it. From what the major Scientist believe, they are something that happens every couple hundred years or so.

I've wondered lately if a Super Flare may be responsible for the 1/3 of the burned up green grass in the book of Revelations. It could explain many things...... It would cause so much havoc with the world that life would change in an instant. Picture an EMP going off that covers the entire world. With Sunspot activity expected to increase greatly at the end of 2011 (read this on the NASA website), we could be in for a very interesting future.

[lighthouse]

that is my thought as well

[lighthouse]

http://www.cjonline.com/news/local/2009-09-20/earth_approaching_sunspot_records

Earth approaching sunspot records

The sun is at a low point of a deep solar minimum in which there are few to no sunspots on its surface.

In July through August, 51 consecutive days passed without a spot, one day short of tying the record of 52 days from the early 1900s.

As of Sept. 15, the current solar minimum ranks third all-time in the amount of spotless days with 717 since 2004. There have been 206 spotless days in 2009, which is 14th all-time. But there are still more than 100 days left in the year, and Perry expects that number to climb.

[lighthouse]

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Sunspot number: 12
What is the sunspot number?
Updated 21 Sept 2009

Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 0 days
2009 total: 212 days (80%)
Since 2004: 723 days
Typical Solar Min: 485 days
explanation | more info
Updated 21 Sept 2009

SUNSPOT 1026: One sunspot is not enough to end the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century, but you've got to start somewhere. "Finally, a new sunspot!" says Paul Maxson who sends this picture from his observatory in Surprise, Arizona:



Sunspot 1026 emerged yesterday to break a string of 19 consecutive spotless days. It's about as wide as Earth, which makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has measured the spot's magnetic polarity and identified it as a member of new Solar Cycle 24. Could this be a harbinger of more to come? Stay tuned.

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[lighthouse]

The sun is blank--no sunspots. Photo credit: SOHO/MDI

[CitySearcher]

So all is well on the solar surface...yet another thing to baffle the scientists, considering we are suppose to be on the upswing of an active 11 year cycle.

I think the moment they upgrade their projections to a 'calm cycle', then the spots will unexplainable return.

(IMHO) I like to think God likes to keep them scratching their heads.

Glad to see you are still updating this lighthouse...been several years now, hasn't it? God bless you. ~CS

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[caligal]

Click on the space weather link on the first page, and then click on the "more images" link to see great pictures of the fireball.

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