I saw this yesterday but I thought maybe they didn't use the filters they normally use and maybe there was always that many things flying around… now I get it. Can any of you A's C's and M's expand on this? I have never seen this. And thank you.
We're just gonna quote SpaceWeather:”The many specks in this movie are not stars–they are solar protons striking SOHO's digital camera. Almost two days later these protons are still streaming past our planet, causing a moderately strong (S2-class) solar radiation storm. The latest data from SOHO show an ongoing blizzard of digital “snow” in coronagraph images.What made this flare so 'radioactive'? It has to do with the location of AR2673 at the time of the explosion. The sun's western limb is magnetically well-connected to Earth. Look at this diagram. Magnetic fields spiraling back from the blast site led directly to our planet, funneling these energetic protons Earthward.Normally, solar radiation storms are held at bay by our planet's magnetic field and upper atmosphere. On Sept.10th, however, there was a “ground level event” (GLE). Neutron monitors in the Arctic, Antarctic, and several other high latitude locations detected a surge of particles reaching all the way down to Earth's surface.”http://spaceweather.com/-CAT Editors
It was actually not that big, more due to the magnetic relationship the earth has with the sun's Western Limb. The energy event in 1956 was 1000 times bigger.-CAT2
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I saw this yesterday but I thought maybe they didn't use the filters they normally use and maybe there was always that many things flying around… now I get it. Can any of you A's C's and M's expand on this? I have never seen this. And thank you.
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Wow, that's some solar flare. I thought the second one was huge until the last one came and it looked like a firework display. Impressive!
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We're just gonna quote SpaceWeather:”The many specks in this movie are not stars–they are solar protons striking SOHO's digital camera. Almost two days later these protons are still streaming past our planet, causing a moderately strong (S2-class) solar radiation storm. The latest data from SOHO show an ongoing blizzard of digital “snow” in coronagraph images.What made this flare so 'radioactive'? It has to do with the location of AR2673 at the time of the explosion. The sun's western limb is magnetically well-connected to Earth. Look at this diagram. Magnetic fields spiraling back from the blast site led directly to our planet, funneling these energetic protons Earthward.Normally, solar radiation storms are held at bay by our planet's magnetic field and upper atmosphere. On Sept.10th, however, there was a “ground level event” (GLE). Neutron monitors in the Arctic, Antarctic, and several other high latitude locations detected a surge of particles reaching all the way down to Earth's surface.”http://spaceweather.com/-CAT Editors
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It was actually not that big, more due to the magnetic relationship the earth has with the sun's Western Limb. The energy event in 1956 was 1000 times bigger.-CAT2
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Very nice. It would be cool to see it in three-dimensions, as a sphere shooting these solar protons out.
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Pretty. <3Frosty
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