Major Solar Flare Causes Radio Blackout

Today, Earth-orbiting satellites detected the biggest solar flare in more than 3 years. The M4.4-category eruption produced a shortwave radio blackout over some parts of Earth and a bright coronal mass ejection (CME). Remarkably, the flare

By spaceweather.com 11-29-20

was even bigger than it seemed. The blast site is located just behind the sun's southeastern limb, so the explosion was partially eclipsed by the body of the sun.

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Geomagnetic Mega-Storm Fries Telegraph Lines – 156 Years Ago Today

By spaceweather.com
9-2-15

     On Sept. 2nd, a billion-ton coronal mass ejection (CME) slammed into Earth's magnetic field. Campers in the Rocky Mountains woke up in the middle of the night, thinking that the glow they saw was sunrise. No, it was the Northern Lights. People in Cuba read their morning paper by the red illumination of aurora borealis. Earth was peppered by particles so energetic, they altered the chemistry of polar ice.

Hard to believe? It really happened--exactly 156 years ago. This map shows where auroras were sighted in the early hours of Sept. 2, 1859:

Map of Auroras Sighted in Morning – Sept. 2, 1859

As the day unfolded, the gathering storm electrified telegraph lines, shocking technicians and setting their telegraph papers on fire. The "Victorian Internet" was knocked offline. Magnetometers around the world recorded strong disturbances in the planetary magnetic field for more than a week. [...]

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Solar Flare Causes Radio Blackout in Pacific

By spaceweather.com
3-7-15

      Emerging sunspot AR2297 has erupted again, producing its strongest flare yet: an M9-class explosion on March 7th at 22:22 UT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the extreme ultraviolet flash (above).

Radiation from the flare ionized the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere on the dayside of the planet. This caused a moderate HF radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean. Mariners and hams operating at frequencies below 10 MHz woud likely have noticed disturbed and/or attenuated signals . . ..

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By Frank Warren
The UFO Chronicles
12-26-14

     The sun emitted a massive solar flare late Friday (Dec. 19); it registered as an X1.8-class event and was captured on camera by NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory. As has happened in the past with these most powerful events (X1's), radio blackouts were experienced for parts of the earth.

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By Dr. Tony Phillips
spaceweather.com
10-19-14

     Behemoth sunspot AR2192 has unleashed an X1-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the blast in this extreme UV image of the sun on Oct. 19th (0500 UT)(see above).

A pulse of ultraviolet and X-radiation from the flare caused a brief but strong HF radio blackout on the dayside of Earth, mainly over Asia and Australia. . . .

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By spaceweather.com
4-25-14

   Departing sunspot complex AR2035-AR2046 erupted on April 25th at 0032 UT, producing a strong X1.3-class solar flare and an HF communications blackout on the dayside of Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the explosion:

The explosion also produced a CME, but because the blast site was so close to the sun's western limb, the cloud is not heading toward our planet. . . .

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Huge Sunspot May Trigger Solar Activity & Flares, NASA Says

By Tariq Malik
The Huffington Post
2-20-13

      A colossal sunspot on the surface of the sun is large enough to swallow six Earths whole, and could trigger solar flares this week, NASA scientists say.

The giant sunspot was captured on camera by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory as it swelled to enormous proportions over the 48 hours spanning Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb. 19 and 20). SDO is one of several spacecraft that constantly monitor the sun's space weather environment.

"It has grown to over six Earth diameters across, but its full extent is hard to judge since the spot lies on a sphere, not a flat disk," wrote NASA spokeswoman Karen Fox, of the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in an image description.

The sunspot region is actually a collection of dark blemishes on the surface of the sun that evolved rapidly over the last two days. Sunspots form from shifting magnetic fields at the sun's surface, and are actually cooler than their surrounding solar material. . . .

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Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst 'Hit Earth in 8th Century'

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A gamma ray burst, the most powerful explosion known in the Universe, may have hit the Earth in the 8th Century.

By Rebecca Morelle
www.bbc.co.uk
1-21-13

     In 2012 researchers found evidence that our planet had been struck by a blast of radiation during the Middle Ages, but there was debate over what kind of cosmic event could have caused this.

Now a study suggests it was the result of two black holes or neutron stars merging in our galaxy.

This collision would have hurled out vast amounts of energy.

The research is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Nature's snapshot

Last year, a team of researchers found that some ancient cedar trees in Japan had an unusual level of a radioactive type of carbon known as carbon-14.

In Antarctica, too, there was a spike in levels of a form of beryllium - beryllium-10 - in the ice.

These isotopes are created when intense radiation hits the atoms in the upper atmosphere, suggesting that a blast of energy had once hit our planet from space.

Using tree rings and ice-core data, researchers were able to pinpoint that this would have occurred between the years AD 774 and AD 775, but the cause of the event was a puzzle.

The possibility of a supernova - an exploding star - was put forward, but then ruled out because the debris from such an event would still be visible in telescopes today.

Another team of US physicists recently published a paper suggesting that an unusually large solar flare from the Sun could have caused the pulse of energy. . . .

* Special Thanks To Andrew Ackerley

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Solar Flare Produces Massive Magnetic Filament

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By NASA / SDO
8-31-12

     Sparked by a medium-sized (C-class) flare, a long, magnetic filament burst out from the Sun, producing one of the best shows that SDO has seen (Aug. 31, 2012). Viewed in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light, the filament strand gets stretched outwards until it finally breaks and heads off to the left. Some of the particles from this eruption did hit Earth with a glancing blow on Sept. 3, generating some beautiful aurora. . . .

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By SPACE.com 8-15-12

     (SPACE.com) A powerful sun storm in July unleashed a wave of plasma and charged particles into space, and scientists now say this solar outburst may be one of the fastest ever recorded. On July 23, the sun blasted a massive cloud of solar material, called a coronal mass ejection(CME), into space, sending it whipping by NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft. Scientists used STEREO's observations to calculate that the speedy CME was traveling between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second (2,900 and 3,540 kilometers per second). That's about 6.48 million to 7.92 million miles per hour (10.43 million and 12.75 million kilometers per hour). The CME's blistering pace makes it the fastest one ever seen by STEREO (short for Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory), and one of the fastest solar outbursts clocked by any spacecraft, the researchers said. . . .

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Solar Flare Eruptions Set to Reach Earth

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By Paul Rincon
BBC News
12-17-11

     Time lapse image of the solar flare as seen by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory

Scientists around the world will be watching closely as three eruptions from the Sun reach the Earth over Thursday and Friday.

These "coronal mass ejections" will slam into the Earth's magnetic shield.

The waves of charged solar particles are the result of three solar flares directed at Earth in recent days, including the most powerful since 2006.

The biggest flares can disrupt technology, including power grids, communications systems and satellites.

The northern lights (Aurora Borealis) may also be visible further south than is normally the case - including from northern parts of the UK.

"Our current view is that the effect of the solar flare is likely to reach Earth later today (Thursday GMT), possibly tomorrow morning," said Alan Thomson, head of geomagnetism at the British Geological Survey (BGS).

He told BBC News: "In the scientific community, there's a feeling that it's not as intense as we first thought it might be. But it's possible still that it could be a large enough event for us to see the northern lights in the UK."

However, weather forecasts suggested cloudy conditions could mar views of any aurorae.

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Solar storm hitting Earth causes beautiful aurora displays

By LA News Monitor
8-4-10

Earth experienced beautiful auroras displays this week when solar storms hit the third planet closet to the Sun. These were experienced in Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Germany and across the northern United States and Canada. These auroras occur when the Sun erupts in a blaze known as a "coronal mass ejection" and ejects up to 10 billion tons of plasma or superheated gas off its surface. The latest aurora reached Earth in three and a half days while it covered 93 million mile.

     The latest solar storm that resulted in a beautiful aurora was termed a smaller class C3 by astronomers. This doesn’t cause much harm to the planet. But, other flares or solar storm of X or M class can cause considerable damage. Astronomers say that a larger solar storm could cause havoc with electrical systems on Earth. Astronomers predict that large solar storms are more likely in 2013.

A large solar storm happened in 1859 where telegraph wires were burned across Europe and the USA. The storm named "Carrington flare", named after its discoverer, “smothered two-thirds of the Earth’s skies in a blood-red aurora a night later, and crippled all of global navigation and global communication, such as it was at that time.

Compasses span uselessly and the telegraph network went down as phantom electricity surged through the wire,” according to Dr Stuart Clark, author of The Sun Kings. In 1989, a smaller but huge storm caused the power grids in Quebec to go down for nine hours. It resulted in revenue loss of hundreds of millions' worth of dollars.

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