Posts Tagged ‘G2Geomagnetic’
G2-Geomagnetic Storm / Solar Watch June 5, 2011
GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A sharp gust of solar wind hit Earth’s magnetic field at approximately 20:30 UT on June 4th, sparking a G2-class geomagnetic storm. The storm is subsiding now, albeit slowly; high-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras. SolarIMG website solarimg.org Soho Website http Solar Soft website www.lmsal.com Helioviewer www.helioviewer.org Quality Dedicated Solar Website Link solarimg.org Estimated Planetary K index information www.swpc.noaa.gov GOES Xray Flux Data www.swpc.noaa.gov Sunspot Information from Solar Monitor www.solarmonitor.org Earthquake Forecasting Channel youtube.com Quality Weather Website www.westernpacificweather.com Space Weather Website http SWS website www2.nict.go.jp information from SWS website and services Copyright@NICT. Caution-All of the plots here are based on the preliminary data (ACE Real Time Data), which have not been processed yet. Intro music used is royalty free and created by Kevin MacLeod Ending music used is 28 Strobe (Adagio in D Minor) by John Murphy
Due to requests, I decided to make a video showing “Aurelia”. NGC made a special called “Extraterrestrial” analogue to Discovery´s “Alien planet”. The program shows two extraterrestrial planets and its inhabitants: “Aurelia” and “Blue Moon”. In this videoclip, I focus on “Aurelia”. The sun of Aurelia is a red dwarf star. Due to the slow rate at which they burn hydrogen, red dwarfs have an enormous estimated lifespan, this would allow a plenty of time for life to evolve on surrounding planets. However, the dwarf’s smaller nature and feeble heat/light output would mean that such a planet would need to be particularly close to the star’s surface. The cost of such an orbit would be that an Earth-sized body would become tidally locked. When this happens, the object presents the same face to its sun at all times as it orbits, just as the Moon does with the Earth. This has curious effects on surface planet: according on your position, the sun simply never comes down, staying in the same position in the sky all year. Half of Aurelia would be in perpetual darkness and in a permanent ice age. The other half would contain a giant, unending hurricane with permanent torrential rain. In between these two zones would be a place suitable for life. Life still face here a major challenge: red dwarf stars are unstable and eject frequent solar flares. Such intense ultraviolet radiation is deadly to all carbon-based life forms as it breaks down the atomic bonds formed by organic compounds. So …
G2-Geomagnetic Storms / Solar Watch May 29, 2011
The recent spell of low solar activity is over. Sunspots are popping up across the solar disk and one of them, growing active region 11226, is crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. So far none of the blasts has been geoeffective, but this could change as the active region turns toward Earth in the days ahead. A stream of high-speed solar wind is buffeting Earth’s magnetic field, causing geomagnetic storms around both of our planet’s poles. At this time of year, the midnight sun interferes with the visibility of Northern Lights over Alaska and Scandinavia, but the situation is different on the other side of Earth. Southern Lights were on full display this morning in the dark autumn skies of Queenstown, New Zealand SolarIMG website solarimg.org Soho Website http Solar Soft website www.lmsal.com Helioviewer www.helioviewer.org Quality Dedicated Solar Website Link solarimg.org Estimated Planetary K index information www.swpc.noaa.gov GOES Xray Flux Data www.swpc.noaa.gov Sunspot Information from Solar Monitor www.solarmonitor.org Earthquake Forecasting Channel youtube.com Quality Weather Website www.westernpacificweather.com Space Weather Website http Intro music used is royalty free and created by Kevin MacLeod Ending music used is 28 Strobe (Adagio in D Minor) by John Murphy
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According to NASA this is an electromagnetic event. Sunspots, solar flares and solar storms are visible plasma wave “discharges.” In a fraction of a second the eruption shoots hundreds of thousand of miles! Not too dissimilar from a lightning bolt on a massive solar scale. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view of a powerful M3.6 Class solar flare on Feb. 24, 2011 during a 90-minute sun storm. Plasma is sort of an electrified “gas” and the fundamental state of matter. It is often called the 4th state of matter. When one or more of the outer (valence) electrons are stripped away from an atom we say the atom has become ‘ionized’. It then exhibits a net positive electrical charge, and is called a ‘positive ion’. On the other hand, if an extra electron is added onto a neutral atom, the combination then carries a net negative charge and is referred to as a ‘negative ion’. The electrical forces between dissimilar ions are orders of magnitude stronger than any mechanical force such as that produced by gravity. An electrical plasma is a cloud of ions and electrons that, under the excitation of applied electrical and magnetic fields, can sometimes light up and behave in some unusual ways Remember, not everything is the way you were taught it was… Electricity attracts, magnets repel. The sun is an electric “element” of the universe which keeps the earth in it’s orbit by means of the stronger force of electromagnetism. NASA scientists called the display a “monster …
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