video: sun-diving comet & coronal mass ejection

A video posted at Universe Today by SolarWatcher captures a comet diving into the Sun and a Coronal mass ejection (CME). The solar events recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), on May 10-11, 2011, are condensed into little over one minute of streaming content. It's a spectacular and well-spent minute of your time!

aurora alert: year's largest solar flare

The largest so far this year, a category M6.6 solar flare is earthbound. A skywatcher alert has been issued for auroras in possibly lower as well as higher latitudes. Experts agree a cloud of radiation from a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), will hit the Earth's magnetic field on or about Feb. 15th. The source of the activity is sunspot 1158, which is expected to grow. Many thanks go to Oystein Lunde Ingvaldsen for his wonderful images like the one pictured. The captured Northern Lights image is from the present buffeting of the magnetosphere above Bo, a town in Norway. They are a wonder to behold!. You can enjoy more aurora pictures from another Norwegian, Bjorn Jorgensen, here.


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sun storms may bring northern lights south

coronal mass ejection headed for earth
from ap: The sun may be about to put on a colorful light show. That's because of two minor solar storms that flared on Sunday and are shooting tons of plasma directly at Earth. Scientists said residents of northern regions - from Maine to Michigan and anywhere farther north around the globe - may see unusual northern lights. Usually only regions closer to the Arctic can see the aurora of rippling reds and greens, but solar storms pull them south. The federal Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo., said the plasma will likely arrive late Tuesday night or early Wednesday. The storms are not much of a threat to satellites or power grids. Until recently, the sun was in a phase with few storms.

update: 'solar tsunami': northern lights seen as far as michigan after sun's flare

ground zero: space weather, coronal mass ejection & chile quake

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from clyde lewis: The Large 8.8 earthquake that hit Chile was not a product of HARRP but it very well could have been a result of a direct hit from the snapping of a solar filament. All last week pictures had been issued from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory of an enormous magnetic filament that hung suspended above the surface of the sun’s southern hemisphere. It was estimated to be I million Kilometers or 621,371 miles long. The filament could wrap itself 24 times around the earth. SOHO did say that the Filament did snap around the 25th of February. It produced clouds and a coronal mass ejection. It was unknown what effect it would have had on the earth.

Now we see that a mass earthquake hits Chile some days after the CME occurs. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean roughly a quarter of the globe.

I would say that we are not out of the woods yet. We have until March 1st to see if anything else strange may go down.

All this activity is a sign that the sun is coming back to life after a long, deep solar minimum. Sunspots have returned crackling with solar flares, and coronal mass ejections.

In the Ground Zero Lounge report "That Synching Feeling: Modern Hermetic Arcanum," I reported that last year it was predicted that something like this would happen within the next three years. It wasn’t predicted by some dime store psychic, but NASA Scientists.

The book 'Severe Space Weather Events–Understanding Societal & Economic Impacts Workshop Report' is a fictitious account that is available for free online and gives us an up close and personal look into a “fictitious“ massive coronal ejection.

The coronal ejection Electromagnetic pulse or EMP from the sun is detailed in the book with a fictitious scenario that happens at Midnight on September 22nd, 2012. In the fictitious account,

“The skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colorful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power. The earth begins to rock and a devastating earthquake is felt over a large area. A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation’s infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event – a violent storm, 150 million kilometers away on the surface of the sun.”

The amazing thing is that the report details beautiful flashing lights above the earth before the EMP or CME hits the earth. When the earthquake hit Chile it was reported on MSNBC that a freelance reporter Cecilia Lagos said that before the quake she saw brilliant flashes of light and brilliant colors in the sky over Chile in the wee morning hours before the quake hit.

People may ask, If this coronal ejection was so huge then why was Chile only feeling the effects? Well this is not over yet, but there is a very good reason why Chile and several other areas in the Southern hemisphere may not escape the wrath of the Electromagnetic Tsunami.

There is an area known as the South Atlantic Anomaly which is a dip in the Earth’s magnetic field which allows cosmic rays, and charged particles to reach lower into the atmosphere. This interferes with communication with satellites, aircraft, and the Space Shuttle. While there are theories as to why this occurs, the geologic origin is not yet known. The earth’s magnetic field is there to protect us from threats. A breach in the field leaves us open for danger.

The magnetic field in the south Atlantic Anomaly can leave people that live in these regions vulnerable for a Pulse ejection from the sun. The mainstream media will not report that a filament from the Sun was dangling above us for three weeks before it exploded. People would panic not knowing what to expect. Ground Zero Listeners have been well aware of what is happening on the sun, and what may be happening to the earth. If you would like to hear past shows of Ground Zero you can download them for a buck out of the file store. It is just one small investment for a whole Lot of knowledge. It is also cheaper than a cup of coffee.

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