Giant Sunspot Unleashes Massive Solar Flare! (Earth, Sun, satellites, spacecraft)

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

On November 3rd one of the most powerful solar flares to date erupted from a Sunspot on the Sun's "surface".

Radio communications were disrupted 45 minutes after the event and more interference is still possible.

Giant Sunspot Unleashes Massive Solar Flare | Space.com

Solar Flares Can Pack Powerful Double Burst, Scientists Say | Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections | The Sun & Space Weather | Space.com

Photos: Sunspots on Earth's Closest Star | Sun Photos & Sunspots | Sunspot Photography | Space.com

Largest Sunspot in Years Observed on Sun | Solar Storms, Flares & Sunspots | Space Weather & Sun Activity | Space.com

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Here are more links>>>>>

Part of sun turns into stormy 'benevolent monster' | Science Headlines | Comcast.net (http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20111103/US.SCI.Stormy.Sun/ - broken link)

The Secret Lives of Solar Flares - NASA Science

Here's a Space Weather link from N.A.S.A.

NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

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Today's Space Weather

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

SOLARHAM.com / SOLARCYCLE 24.com / Solar Cycle 24 / Spaceweather / Amateur Radio VHF Aurora Website / Sunspots / Solar Flares

[Six Foot Three]

So in other words i better have my sun screen handy?

Just jiving ya PITTS as i appreciate the info about it

[Pretzelogik]

Originally Posted by PITTSTON2SARASOTA

On November 3rd one of the most powerful solar flares to date erupted from a Sunspot on the Sun's "surface".

Radio communications were disrupted 45 minutes after the event and more interference is still possible.

Giant Sunspot Unleashes Massive Solar Flare | Space.com

Solar Flares Can Pack Powerful Double Burst, Scientists Say | Solar Flares & Coronal Mass Ejections | The Sun & Space Weather | Space.com

Photos: Sunspots on Earth's Closest Star | Sun Photos & Sunspots | Sunspot Photography | Space.com

Largest Sunspot in Years Observed on Sun | Solar Storms, Flares & Sunspots | Space Weather & Sun Activity | Space.com

Now there is the REAL source of your cotton pikin global warming and/or cooling.

[Brian.Pearson]

Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by Pretzelogik

Now there is the REAL source of your cotton pikin global warming and/or cooling.

Actually there would be NO real heat(that would be long wavelength infrared radiation) involved at all........ .

Just lotsa deadly radiation(high energy/short wavelength)....especially Gamma Rays.

And IF it were powerful enough to temporarily plow through our magnetosphere......it won't be pretty.

The E.M.P. pulse(ElectroMagnetic Pulse) could shut down most of the power grid and most electronics, not hardened to withstand the radiation....depending on where/when it strikes.

Satellites that we depend on extensively, can easily be interfered with, damaged and even rendered permanently useless.

And would increase future cancer rates dramatically....

Get out the tin foil hats!

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by Brian.Pearson

Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility

You're talking about blowing up the planet or some such nonsense...I'm well aware of what the flare can and cannot do to the planet....see my previous post.