On October 1, 2011, a comet screamed into the Sun and presumably disintegrated. A few minutes later, the Sun erupted in a big blast of magnetic energy called a Coronal Mass Ejection. Are the two related? I show three satellite views of the comet and CME from three different angles, and describe the events. My conclusion: it's almost certainly coincidence. More info: blogs.discovermagazine.com Original satellite footage credits: NASA & SOHO & STEREO

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On June 21 the Sun produced a C7 class flare. The Coronal Mass Ejection was aimed at Earth and is traveling at approx. 650 km/h towards Earth. Not to fear! Earth's magnetic field will "welcoming" the arriving CME around June 24 and the blow should not cause any major issues. The forecast predicts a G1-class (which is a Kp 5) geomagnetic storm. We should be seeing some auroras. G1 class is considered a minor storm, having only a weak impact on power systems, minor impact on satellite operations. Some of the migratory animals are affected at this level and can trigger aurorae in high latitudes. Credit: NASA SDO

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SUNDIVING COMET: A comet just discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov is diving past the sun today, and it will probably not survive.

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The Sun is popping off CMEs at a rapid rate now that Elenin is rolling around downtown in our solar system.

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-= BPODs ▀█▀ █▀ █_█ ▀█▀ █▬█ FORUM =- bpod-forum.1064914.n5.nabble.com This ejection is blown out from the same area as the explosion that happened when the UFO type object that some people believe was a sun diving comet hit the sun, makes me wonder if it blew a hole in the sun and whats up with the CMEs spiral shape? It looks like its spinning!

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The Sun unleashed a large X class (strongest category) flare late on Sept. 7 and into early Sept. 8, 2011. The images were taken in extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from SDO. The video clip presents the flash of the flare and a mass of ejecta that rose above the Sun, some of which fell back to the surface. However, other instruments from SOHO and STEREO showed a large mass of particles rushing out into space. Flares emit a great deal of radiation, but this is not captured in this wavelength of light. The brightness of this flare caused very bright saturation and 'blooming' above and below the flare region on the CCD detector and caused extended diffraction patterns to spread out. Credit: NASA SDO

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These photos were captured on Dec 28 2011. The sun displayed incredible CMEs, coronal mass ejections while at the same time enormous UFOs moved in and out of fame. I have convinced that our Sun is used as a star gate by these beings. If you would like to see more UFOs around the Sun go to hyperdimension.causalityofbeing.com and for more music by Causality of Being go to causalityofbeing.com

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On Saturday, November 26, 2011 a solar flare hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) at about 930 km/s or 2 million mph into Space. This fast moving CME will reach Earth on Monday November 28th. The impact of the ionized particle cloud could trigger a geomagnetic storm with some aurorae sightings in high latitudes. Watch the animated CME forecast tracker here: iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov Credit: NASA SDO / Goddard Space Weather Lab

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Linked video: www.youtube.com Watch this amazing explosion on the Sun. From sunspot complex 1226-1227 comes an X-ray Flare peaking at a magnitude of M2.5 at 0640 UTC on 7 June, 2011. This X-ray flare hurled a massive coronal mass ejection (CME) toward the Earth. This not-squarely Earth-directed CME is moving at 1400 km/s according to NASA models. The CME did not deliver even a noticeable glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field late June 8th or June 9th. What can be seen clearly in this movie is one of the most spectacular prominence eruptions ever observed. In fact, one could call it a "prominence explosion". The prominence material expanded to a volume some 75 times as big across as the earth! This X-ray flare also triggered an S1-level solar radiation storm, causing a long-lasting polar cap absorption (PCA) event. A polar cap absorption (PCA) event affects the propagation of a shortwave radio signal as it makes its way over the polar regions. In short, radio communications on lower shortwave radio frequencies become more difficult, as those radio signals are absorbed by the ionosphere (in the D-region) over the polar regions. What does this mean in real-world communications? Trans-polar airline pilots may find it more difficult to communicate with regional air traffic control, shortwave radio listeners who want to hear a broadcast from a country by receiving a transmission from a country by way of a transmission beamed over the pole (like, from Europe into the USA via <b>...</b>

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This animation shows a forecast from WSA-Enlil, an advanced forecast model used by the NWS Space Weather Prediction Center. The sun is yellow at left; Earth is green at right. This forecast was produced Saturday, September 24, 2011, and projects the coronal mass ejection — in red, black and white — currently impacting Earth. Note: This video contains no speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content.

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Earthbound CME Oct. 26th 2011. Should impact Earth on or near the 28th of October. Source: stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov

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CORONAL MASS EJECTION: On June 14th around 0810 UT, a magnetic filament near the sun's eastern limb became unstable and erupted. The resulting blast hurled a bright and massive CME into space: The expanding cloud was observed by 3 spacecraft: STEREO-A, STEREO-B and SOHO. Researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Weather Lab assembled data from the fleet to create a 3-dimensional model of the expanding cloud: movie. According to their analysis, the cloud blew away from the sun at a speed of 830 km/s and it could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on June 17th at 10:50 UT (plus minus 7 hours). The impact is not expected to provoke strong geomagnetic storming. Nevertheless, high-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the CME arrives.

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During the later part of Thursday, Sept 29, 2011 a Bright CME is seen billowing away from the Sun. Unfortunatly this is a Farside event and will not impact earth.

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posmedprodnet.webs.com On August 1st around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action: posmedprodnet.webs.com

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The Sun has come to life with multiple Solar Flares both on the earth facing side and backside. This awesome LASCO Movie shows numerous CMEs blasting away from the Sun between Sept 4 and Sept 8th, 2011.

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The Sun released a Huge CME 4/3/11 - Not yet confirmed if it is Earth Directed stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov

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I present a short overview of videos and images of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun.

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Plasma from solar flares or coronal mass ejections travel along solar wind to ultimately produce aurora's in Earth's polar regions, and affect satellites and power grids and other man-made electronics. Related video: www.youtube.com For many years, the idea that coronal mass ejections (CME) launched from the Sun and could strike the Earth was inferred from an indirect chain of evidence collected from multiple satellites. Now the Heliospheric Imagers aboard the STEREO-A spacecraft has managed to view a CME propagate from the surface of the Sun to the Earth. This visualization shows the position of the STEREO spacecraft during the event, as well as the positions of the inner solar system planets, Venus and Mercury. A faint cone illustrates the field-of-view (FOV) of the HI-2 imager on STEREO-A. The position of the front of the CME is computed from STEREO data. NASA's STEREO spacecraft and new data processing techniques have succeeded in tracking space weather events from their origin in the Sun's ultra-hot corona to impact with the Earth 96 million miles away, resolving a 40-year mystery about the structure of the structures that cause space weather: how the structures that impact the Earth relate to the corresponding structures in the solar corona. Despite many instruments that monitor the Sun and a fleet of near-earth probes, the connection between near-Earth disturbances and their counterparts on the Sun has been obscure, because CMEs and the solar wind evolve and change <b>...</b>

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Time lapse 2011-04-02- 2011-04-07.Soho blocks April 3rd day of huge coronal mass ejection or cme This cme can be found on other sites. It takes just about 3 days for the cme to reach earth. 3 days before the tsunami and earthquake in japan there was a Very big cme just 4 days before the earthquake in japan and Mexico happened there was a very big cme on the 3rd of April. You can predict earthquakes by studying the sun. If you see a major cme there will likely be earthquakes 3-4 days after. Also notice the moving star. April 3rd cme link (ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com It's a fact that the earth is a giant magnet, and our earth is surrounded by what is called a magnetosphere. Cme's definitely affect our magnetospere, as the solar-wind impacts it. The magnetic core of the earth is directly tied to the magnetosphere, and this link is what causes the aurora-boreualis effect, the corelating negative and positive charges of the solar wind being "pulled" in to the north and south poles. The magnetosphere has a "belt tightening" effect on the plates.

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IMPACT: A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field at approximately 12:15 UT on Sept. 26th.

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The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface. SDO observed the flare's peak at 1:41 AM ET. SDO recorded these images in extreme ultraviolet light and they show a very large explosion of cool gas. It is somewhat unique because at many places in the eruption there seems to be even cooler material -- at temperatures less than 80000K. When viewed in SOHO's coronagraphs, the event shows bright plasma and high-energy particles roaring from the Sun. This Earth-directed CME is moving at 1400 km/s according to NASA models. Due to its angle, however, effects on Earth should be fairly small. Nevertheless, it may generate space weather effects here on Earth in a few days. Credit: NASA/SDO

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SUN CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS JUNE 2010 Latest Images from SOHO LASCO C2 - C3 & SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory Space Weather Alerts from: NOAA / Space Weather Prediction Center www.swpc.noaa.gov Alerts Issued in June 2010: Space Weather Message Code: WARK04 Serial Number: 1635 Issue Time: 2010 Jun 15 2237 UTC WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected Valid From: 2010 Jun 15 2330 UTC Valid To: 2010 Jun 16 0900 UTC Warning Condition: Onset Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1688 Issue Time: 2010 Jun 13 1658 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1687 Begin Time: 2010 May 30 1015 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1321 pfu Space Weather Message Code: ALTTP2 Serial Number: 697 Issue Time: 2010 Jun 13 0621 UTC ALERT: Type II Radio Emission Begin Time: 2010 Jun 13 0539 UTC Estimated Velocity: 665 km/s CREDITS for Data/Video/Images: "Courtesy of SDOSolar Dynamics Observatory (NASA) and the [AIA, EVE, and/or AIA] consortium, SOHO (NASA & ESA)" - sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov - sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov HoloGraphicMind 2010 No Profit Productions SOLAR REPORT (My Playlist): www.youtube.com SOUNDTRACKS: (3 tracks samples) Don Cherry: Neti-Neti, The Hear and Now Mix ReMixed by dj Cheb i Sabbah Album: As Far As: A DJ Mix Label: Six Degrees Original Release Date: June 17, 2003 Stephan Luke - Visions Of Shiva Various Artists: Opium Garden Miami Beach [Turn Up the Music] Description: Collection Genre: Electronic Label: Moist Music <b>...</b>

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WEEKEND AURORAS: A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on Sept 17th, sparking a moderate geomagnetic storm (Kp=6) and auroras around the Arctic Circle.

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MERCURY-DIRECTED CME: A significant coronal mass ejection (CME) blasted away from the sun's eastern hemisphere on Nov. 12th. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say the cloud will hit Mercury on Nov. 13th at 1800 UT (+/- 7 hr) followed by Venus about one day later. The innermost planets are about to experience space weather REMARKABLE SOLAR ACTIVITY: There haven't been any strong solar flares in days. Nevertheless, some impressive activity is underway on the sun. For one thing, an enormous wall of plasma is towering over the sun's southeastern horizon. Stephen Ramsden of Atlanta, Georgia, took this picture on Nov. 11th: "Solar forums all over the world are buzzing with Sun-stronomers proclaiming this to be the biggest prominence that many of them had ever witnessed," he says. Remarkably, though, this is not the biggest thing. A dark filament of magnetism is snaking more than halfway around the entire sun: SDO image. From end to end, it stretches more than a million km or about three times the distance between Earth and the Moon. If the filament becomes unstable, as solar filaments are prone to do, it could collapse and hit the stellar surface below, triggering a Hyder flare. No one can say if the eruption of such a sprawling structure would be Earth directed. SPACE WEATHER spaceweather.com

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Largest Coronal mass ejection happened today, June 7th, 2011. Source: sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov

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A coronal mass ejection (CME) blasted out from an active region that was just coming around the Sun's edge (May 9-10, 2011). Even in the close-up video of the CME observed by SDO in extreme ultraviolet light, the blast is not so apparent: it looks more like a flower opening its petals. However, the arcade of coiling magnetic field lines seen in profile are busily reconnecting after the blast (called post-flare loops) and put on a splendid show. The growing, expanding loop arcade with time is an illusion. This perceived expansion results from the magnetic reconnection process proceeding upward into the corona, forming new closed hot loops at successively higher levels in the 171 Angstrom channel. The lower loops, which get heated first, cool out of the 171 Angstrom channel sooner than the higher loops. These two effects produce an apparent rising loop system. That video clip shows about 20 hours of activity. Watch Part 2 (NASA/ESA SOHO LASCO's view point) here: www.youtube.com Credit: NASA SDO

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The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a substantial coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7 that is visually spectacular. The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface. The two NASA STEREO and the NASA SDO spacecrafts observed this event from three different view-points. The spacecrafts observed the flare's peak at 1:41 AM EST. SDO recorded these images in extreme ultraviolet light and they show a very large explosion of cool gas. It is somewhat unique because at many places in the eruption there seems to be even cooler material -- at temperatures less than 80000K. Credit: NASA SDO & NASA STEREO

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This is the C2 view from the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO C2) of the M1.4 Magnitude X-ray Flare and the Coronal Mass Ejection that resulted. The flare peaked at 0104 UTC on 28 January 2011, but the CME continued to erupt for a good while after the peak flare event. See the flare here: www.youtube.com More at sunspotwatch.com Facebook: facebook.com Twitter: @hfradiospacewx and @NW7US Source: LASCO/SOHO/NASA Goddard

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