Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Here Comes the Sun, Little Darlings! (A Sunny Photo Blog)

Hi Everybody!! Please come in for some warmth tonight.

We are going to put our normal partying and tripping mode on hold for a moment and focus on the breaking news of this day March 6-The Sun. As you look at the sunset photostudy, I want you to think about the warmth of the Sun and the Great Light that gives us Life on Earth. Without the Sun, we would not be here.

I want to quickly Thank all of you for coming by and coming back again, following and commenting. (Any comments will not show up until the next day). It is so great to feel your positive thoughts coming at me! Please keep trying to get my blog to any isolated, lonely people. Lee Battles, I thank you for sharing my posts to your stream, but more than that, thanks for being so supportive and encouraging. I do not hear those words anymore since Mom and Dad left, it feels good to hear them again! We are all new at the social media, but I do make an effort to share information, thoughts and ideas instead of google cats!!!!!

At the end of the images of the sunset on Earth, I am going to take you a little higher! We are going to have a look at the Sun and see for ourselves what is going on. Enjoy, my Friends.

Okay, going a little higher now-Just push play arrow to start the Trip-(Hold On!)

March 7, 2011

June 7, 2011

I saw the following news this morning when I opened up the office. I posted this to G+ and copied the post to this blog. As I pasted this post into blog, the links may not be live, so I have added the link to Space.com.
I called it a CMI, but it is actually CME (coronal mass ejection).

brendasue watson - 6:57 AM -

+1'd on www.space.com

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We have CMI solar storm coming today to earth.
This is informative (short video showing the CMI)

Strong X-Class Solar Flare Heralds Geomagnetic Storm | Video

A potent X1 class flare, blasting a dazzling coronal mass ejection, left the Sun early on March 5th 2012 caused by sunspot cluster 4X the size of Earth. An earlier M2 class flare also produced a CME t...

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http://www.space.com/14794-strong-class-solar-flare-heralds-geomagnetic-storm-video.html

Here is another newsbreak from this link below:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-sun-unleashes-powerful-x-class-solar.html

Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare

March 6, 2012 By Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today

The Sun has been quiet recently but early today (04:13 UTC on March 5, 2012) it unleashed a powerful X1-class solar flare and coronal mass ejection. The latest estimates indicate the CME will probably miss Earth, but hit Mercury and Venus. Even so, the science team from the Solar Dynamics Observatory says that high-latitude skywatchers should still be alert for auroras in the nights ahead. There was also an M2-class eruption from the same big and active sunspot, Active Region 1429, on March 4th which produced another, wider CME that might yet intersect Earth. The cloud is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet’s magnetic field on March 6th at 04:30 UT (+/- 7 hrs).

Below is description of sun from this link:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm

The Sun is the most prominent feature in our solar system. It is the largest object and contains approximately 98% of the total solar system mass. One hundred and nine Earths would be required to fit across the Sun's disk, and its interior could hold over 1.3 million Earths. The Sun's outer visible layer is called the photosphere and has a temperature of 6,000 degrees C (11,000F). This layer has a mottled appearance due to the turbulent eruptions of energy at the surface

The chromosphere is above the photosphere. Solar energy passes through this region on its way out from the center of the Sun. Faculae and flares arise in the chromosphere. Faculae are bright luminous hydrogen clouds which form above regions where sunspots are about to form. Flares are bright filaments of hot gas emerging from sunspot regions. Sunspots are dark depressions on the photosphere with a typical temperature of 4,000C (7,000F).

The corona is the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere. It is in this region that prominences appears. Prominences are immense clouds of glowing gas that erupt from the upper chromosphere.The outer region of the corona stretches far into space and consists of particles traveling slowly away from the Sun. The corona can only be seen during total solar eclipses.
The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years and has enough fuel to go on for another five billion years or so. At the end of its life,the Sun will start to fuse helium into heavier elements and begin to swell up, ultimately growing so large that it will swallow the Earth. After a billion years as a red giant, it will suddenly collapse into a white dwarf--the final end product of a star like ours. It may take a trillion years to cool off completely.

Sun Diagram

Sun Statistics
Mass (kg)	1.989e+30
Mass (Earth = 1)	332,830
Equatorial radius (km)	695,000
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)	108.97
Mean density (gm/cm^3)	1.410
Rotational period (days)	25-36*
Escape velocity (km/sec)	618.02
Luminosity (ergs/sec)	3.827e33
Magnitude (Vo)	-26.8
Mean surface temperature	6,000°C
Age (billion years)	4.5
Principal chemistry Hydrogen Helium Oxygen Carbon Nitrogen Neon Iron Silicon Magnesium Sulfur All others	92.1% 7.8% 0.061% 0.030% 0.0084% 0.0076% 0.0037% 0.0031% 0.0024% 0.0015% 0.0015%

This image was acquired from NASA"s Skylab space station on December 19, 1973. It shows one of the most spectacular solar flares ever recorded, propelled by magnetic forces, lifting off from the Sun. It spans more than 588,000km of the solar surface. In this photograph, the solar poles are distinguished by a relative absence of super granulation network, and a much darker tone than the central portions of the disk. (Courtesy NASA).