Major Solar Activity
Posted by JAC on 2/6/2010, 3:48 pm
A huge pickup in x-ray background and flares in the past 24 hrs.

A factor of 1000 increase in energy.

Biggest so far is a M2.5 flare after a very low period.

I wonder how the earth will react?

Could we see another major quake?











A big new sunspot is rapidly emerging in the sun's northern hemisphere. Rogerio Marcon sends this picture taken just hours ago from his backyard observatory in Campinas, Brasil:



The active region is crackling with solar flares. The strongest so far is an M2-class eruption at 1900 UT on Feb. 6th. (See the movie from NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft.) Each of the spot's dark cores is about twice as wide as Earth, which makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. Stay tuned for solar activity!







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