BELOW IS AN AMAZING, UNBELIEVABLE SIGN THAT THE LORD IS GIVING TO US OF JESUS' SOON RETURN!!! TURN YOUR HEAD TO THE RIGHT, AND THERE IS A PICTURE OF JESUS WITH A CROWN OF THORNS, ON THIS DEVELOPING RING ON THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!! CAN YOU SEE IT? IS THIS AN AWESOME SIGN, OR WHAT??!
Enormous Ring is Developing on the Sun
What is this strange ring that has been developing on the Sun during 16-Oct?
Sunspot 1112, located in the southeast quadrant, has been the source of a giant filament that is currently stretching 400,000 km across the surface of the Sun.
However, today, there appears to be development of a enormous circular ring which looks to be linking with the huge magnetic filament of sunspot 1112. Most of today’s various wavelength images of the Sun all show this feature over at the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) – NASA website.
SpaceWeather.com today reports,
A vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the Sun’s southern hemisphere today. A bright ‘hot spot’ just north of the filament’s midpoint is UV radiation from sunspot 1112. The proximity is no coincidence; the filament appears to be rooted in the sunspot below. If sunspot flares, it could cause the entire structure to erupt. This active region merits watching…
What concerns me is that if indeed this is a huge magnetic filament nearly encircling the entire Sun, it is now currently directly facing the Earth. If sunspot 1112 does erupt, could the entire filament explode into a massive CME?
This particular phenomenon will be all over in a few days as it rotates
around the Sun, but it serves to remind us that there are more and more events
happening on the Sun as we transit into the next solar cycle maximum (peaking ~
2012 into 2013).
CME is short for coronal
mass ejection, a plasma made up of mostly electrons and protons.
Basically, a CME is electromagnetic radiation that is ejected from active regions of the sun.
CMEs directed at Earth can interfere with radio communications,
harm satellites, and even damage electrical power transmission circuits and
infrastructure, potentially causing widespread power grid failure. The biggest
threat to human civilization is the later, a massive power grid failure, which
could take months or even years to repair. This circumstance would require an
extremely powerful CME, which fortunately do not occur on a regular
basis.
Update
16-Oct-2010:
Issued: 2010 Oct 16 2156 UTC
Product: documentation at
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# FAST
WARNING ‘PRESTO’ MESSAGE from the SIDC (RWC-Belgium)
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An M2.9 X-ray flare occurred at 19:12UT at
S20W26 in the vicinity of
active region 1112. There is no evidence for an
associated CME. The
flare was confined in time. The filament in the
neighborhood of the
flare site didn’t erupt as can be seen in PROBA2/SWAP
images.
Sunspot 1112 just produced a
solar flare (16-Oct, 2156 UTC) and we have apparently dodged a bullet for the
moment… it did not ignite the massive filament. However, Sunspot 1112 is still
Earth-facing and could easily flare again… Eyes are still on it…
Update 17-Oct-2010:
While reports are indicating that yesterdays M3-class eruption was the largest in three months, sunspot 1112 is still growing and the huge associated filament remains intact and ready to ignite should a larger flare explode in the upcoming hours.
Composite Image from 17-Oct-2010, 1435 UTC
Update 18-Oct-2010:
Sunspot 1112 and its monstrous 400,000 km filament located in the southeast quadrant, continues its (left to right) rotation around the sun, while still Earth facing and intact.
Composite Image from 18-Oct-2010, 1333 UTC
Another (small) C-class
solar flare erupted today at 1708 UTC from sunspot region 1112, not enough to
ignite the filament.
Check out the close-up image of the region as it makes its way towards the south east edge. Image from AIA (Atmospheric Imager Assembly) wavelength: 171 angstroms.
Maybe too much information, but it has been fun to watch this one…
