- 3320 - SUN FLARES - this Halloween, 2021. The sun is currently in the beginning phase of its latest 11-year solar cycle, “solar cycle 25“, in which its activity rises and falls over time. Currently its activity is relatively low. But, we get our first solar flare for Halloween.
--------------------- 3320 - SUN FLARES - this Halloween, 2021.
- The sun brings gives light and warmth to all life on Earth. Solar flares, eruptions and other sun storms can have serious effects to satellites and other systems around or on Earth. Here are some of the worst solar storms known to humanity.
-
- The Carrington Event of 1859 was the first documented event of a solar flare impacting Earth. The event occurred on September 1 and is named after Richard Carrington, the solar astronomer who witnessed the event through his private observatory telescope and sketched the sun's sunspots at the time. The flare was the largest documented solar storm in the last 500 years.
-
- The Carrington solar storm event sparked major aurora displays that were visible as far south as the Caribbean. It also caused severe interruptions in global telegraph communications, even shocking some telegraph operators and sparking fires when discharges from the lines ignited telegraph paper.
-
- The major solar flare that erupted on Aug. 4, 1972 knocked out long-distance phone communication across some states, including Illinois. In fact, it caused AT&T to redesign its power system for transatlantic cables.
-
- In March 1989, a powerful solar flare set off a major March 13 power blackout in Canada that left six million people without electricity for nine hours. The flare disrupted electric power transmission from the Hydro Québec generating station and even melted some power transformers in New Jersey.
-
- The Bastille Day event takes its name from the French national holiday since it occurred the same day on July 14, 2000. This was a major solar eruption that registered an X5 on the scale of solar flares.
-
- The Bastille Day event caused some satellites to short-circuit and led to some radio blackouts. It remains one of the most highly observed solar storm events and was the most powerful flare since 1989.
-
- On October 28, 2003, the sun unleashed a solar flare. The intense sun storm was so strong it overwhelmed the spacecraft sensor measuring it. The sensor topped out at X28, already a massive flare, but later analysis found that the flare reached a peak strength of about X45.
-
- The solar storm was part of a string of at least nine major flares over a two-week period.
-
- When a major X-class solar flare erupted on the sun on Dec. 5, 2006, it registered a powerful X9 on the space weather scale. This storm from the sun disrupted satellite-to-ground communications and Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation signals for about 10 minutes.
-
- The sun storm was so powerful it actually damaged the solar X-ray imager instrument on the GOES 13 satellite that snapped its picture.
-
- A massive solar flare from the sun could lead to a dazzling northern lights display for parts of the northern United States this Halloween year 2021. The sun storm, a powerful X1-class solar flare, erupted from the sun on Thursday, October 28, 2021 and sent a vast cloud of charged particles toward Earth that should arrive over Halloween weekend.
-
- Those particles will slam into the Earth's atmosphere to amplify the regular northern lights caused by the sun's solar wind. The solar flare, the second most powerful eruption from the sun this year, sparked a strong geomagnetic storm that should supercharge the northern lights, and could make them visible from as far south as New York, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Maryland and Nevada.
-
- The solar flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection , a huge eruption of radiation, that spewed solar particles away from the sun at a mind-boggling 2.5 million miles per hour..
-
- This solar flare erupted from an active sunspot called “AR2887” that is currently located in the center of the sun as it makes its way across the star's face, as seen from Earth. Another active sunspot, “AR2891“, rotated into view this week for its own two-week trip across the sun's face. It fired off a moderate, M-class solar flare on Sunday (October 24, 2021).
-
- X-class solar flares are the strongest type of sun eruptions. When they're aimed directly at Earth, the most powerful ones can endanger astronauts in space, interfere with satellite communications signals and affect power grids on Earth.
-
- Thursday's solar flare caused a temporary radio blackout for high frequencies, as well as a GPS blackout for systems that use low-frequency signals.
-
- The sun is currently in the beginning phase of its latest 11-year solar cycle, “solar cycle 25“, in which its activity rises and falls over time. Currently its activity is relatively low. There is more to come.10/30/21
-
- October 30, 2021 SUN FLARES - this Halloween, 2021 3320
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----- Comments appreciated and Pass it on to whomever is interested. ---
--- Some reviews are at: -------------- http://jdetrick.blogspot.com -----
-- email feedback, corrections, request for copies or Index of all reviews
--- to: ------ jamesdetrick@comcast.net ------ “Jim Detrick” -----------
--------------------- --- Saturday, October 30, 2021 ---------------------------
No comments:
Post a Comment