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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 50108" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p>Today's Headline:</p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">STRONGEST SOLAR STORM SINCE 2005 HITTING EARTH</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">WASHINGTON (AP) — The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">The radiation is mostly a concern for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communication problems for polar-traveling airplanes, said space weather center physicist Doug Biesecker.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">Radiation from Sunday's flare arrived at Earth an hour later and will likely continue through Wednesday. Levels are considered strong but other storms have been more severe. There are two higher levels of radiation on NOAA's storm scale — severe and extreme — Biesecker said. Still, this storm is the strongest for radiation since May 2005.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">The radiation — in the form of protons — came flying out of the sun at 93 million miles per hour.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">"The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that," Biesecker said. That's why the effects will stick around for a couple days.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">NASA's flight surgeons and solar experts examined the solar flare's expec</span><span style="color: #ffff99">ted effects and decided that the six astronauts on the International Space Station do not have to do anything to protect themselves from the radiation, spokesman Rob Navias said.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">A solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Antti Pulkkinen, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons. </span><span style="color: #ffff99">Then, finally the coronal mass ejection — that's the plasma from the sun itself — hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Biesecker said.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">It's the plasma that causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights further south.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as Alabama, the northern lights aren't likely to dip too far south this time, Biesecker said. Parts of New England, upstate New York, northern Michigan, Montana and the Pacific Northwest could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">Now that super-quiet cycle doesn't seem as likely, Biesecker said.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 — during the sun's quiet period — are excited.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">"We haven't had anything like this for a number of years," Pulkkinen said. "It's kind of special."</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">___</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center: <a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffff99">http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/</span></a></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #ffff99">NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: <a href="http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffff99">http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/</span></a></span></p><p>SOURCE: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/strongest-solar-storm-since-2005-hitting-earth-163628746.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/strongest-solar-storm-since-2005-hitting-earth-163628746.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 50108, member: 2770"] Today's Headline: [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]STRONGEST SOLAR STORM SINCE 2005 HITTING EARTH[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]WASHINGTON (AP) — The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]The radiation is mostly a concern for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communication problems for polar-traveling airplanes, said space weather center physicist Doug Biesecker.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]Radiation from Sunday's flare arrived at Earth an hour later and will likely continue through Wednesday. Levels are considered strong but other storms have been more severe. There are two higher levels of radiation on NOAA's storm scale — severe and extreme — Biesecker said. Still, this storm is the strongest for radiation since May 2005.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]The radiation — in the form of protons — came flying out of the sun at 93 million miles per hour.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]"The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don't get rid of them like that," Biesecker said. That's why the effects will stick around for a couple days.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]NASA's flight surgeons and solar experts examined the solar flare's expec[/COLOR][COLOR=#ffff99]ted effects and decided that the six astronauts on the International Space Station do not have to do anything to protect themselves from the radiation, spokesman Rob Navias said.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]A solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Antti Pulkkinen, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons. [/COLOR][COLOR=#ffff99]Then, finally the coronal mass ejection — that's the plasma from the sun itself — hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Biesecker said.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]It's the plasma that causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights further south.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as Alabama, the northern lights aren't likely to dip too far south this time, Biesecker said. Parts of New England, upstate New York, northern Michigan, Montana and the Pacific Northwest could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun's 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]Now that super-quiet cycle doesn't seem as likely, Biesecker said.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1] [/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 — during the sun's quiet period — are excited.[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]"We haven't had anything like this for a number of years," Pulkkinen said. "It's kind of special."[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]___[/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center: [URL='http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/'][COLOR=#ffff99]http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][/INDENT] [INDENT=1][COLOR=#ffff99]NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: [URL='http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/'][COLOR=#ffff99]http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][/INDENT] SOURCE: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/strongest-solar-storm-since-2005-hitting-earth-163628746.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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