Monster Sunspot Growing On Feb 22, 2013

NASA sees monster sunspot growing fast, solar storms possible
Posted on February 22, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
February 22, 2013 - SPACE - 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. According to Fox, some of the intense magnetic fields in the sunspot region are pointing in opposite directions, making it ripe for solar activity. “This is a fairly unstable configuration that scientists know can lead to eruptions of radiation on the sun called solar flares,” Fox explained. The sun is currently in the midst of an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle and is expected to reach peak activity sometime this year. The current sun weather cycle is known as Solar Cycle 24. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory launched in 2010 and is just one of a fleet of spacecraft keeping close watch on the sun for signs of solar flares, eruptions and other space weather events. -Yahoo News

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Activity increases On Jan 9, 2013

Activity increases on the Sun, as sunspots proliferate
Posted on January 9, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
January 9, 2013 - SPACE - CHANCE OF FLARES: NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of M-class flares and a 5% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours. The most likely source would be sunspot AR1652; it has a ‘beta-gamma’ magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class eruptions. The active region is circled in this Jan. 8th image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory: Of greater interest, perhaps, is the large sunspot emerging just south of AR1652. Denoted by an arrow, the unnumbered region is crackling with C-class solar flares and, based on its size, could be capable of even stronger eruptions. We will know more in the days ahead as the sunspot turns toward Earth; a more direct view will reveal what kind of magnetic field the sunspot possesses. A very large sunspot is emerging over the sun’s eastern limb. Numbered AR1654, it consists of two dark cores each 4 or more times wider than Earth. -Space Weather

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Massive Flare Burst On Nov. 15 , 2012

Massive Solar Flare Heading Towards Earth
Friday, November 16, 2012 14:44
A huge mass of electrically-charged particles thrown out by a gigantic eruption on the Sun is due to strike the Earth tonight.
Scientists expect it to trigger one of the most violent geomagnetic storms ever recorded.
The result could be widespread power surges and even blackouts, disrupted TV and mobile phone signals, and broken down communication satellites.
At the same time the Northern Lights, normally confined to polar latitudes, may produce dazzling displays in the skies above southern Britain.
At least one satellite has already been knocked out of action by the storm. Japan’s space agency said its Kodama communications satellite had been temporarily shut down after malfunctioning.
The solar flare that caused the eruption burst out of a sunspot at 10.54am yesterday.
Experts said it was the strongest flare seen in the past 30 years. The explosion caused a coronal mass ejection (CME) which is now speeding towards Earth.

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X1.8 Flare on Oct. 23, 2012

Solar Weather Alert (Solar Flare X1.8 Eruption)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 9:53
AR 1598 erupted again, for the 4th time, on October 23, 2012. It produced a X1.8 Solar Flare, but it did not produce a CME or Coronal Mass Ejection.
Because it did not produce a CME, the effect of the flare hit the earth within minutes and only produced ionization in the upper atmosphere causing some radio blackouts in Asia and Australia, which was facing the sun at the time.
Since AR1598 is very active NOAA has changed the flare forecasts. Currently M-classes forecasts are at 75% for the next 48 hrs and X-Class is at 20% chance of occurring.
For More Information and full report please visit Common Sense Preparedness at http://cspdb.com/csp/index.php/solar-report/317-solar-weather-alert-solar-flare-x1-8-eruption

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PREDICCS starts on October, 2012

By Alton Parrish (Reporter)
Solar Radiation Alert, Shock Warning With Real Time Tool
Monday, October 15, 2012 9:45

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Astrophysicists from the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center (SSC) have created the first online system for predicting and forecasting the radiation environment in near-Earth, lunar, and Martian space environments. The near real-time tool will provide critical information as preparations are made for potential future manned missions to the moon and Mars.

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To make its radiation assessments, PREDICCS integrates two radiation environment models, including the Earth-Moon-Mars Radiation Environment Module (EMMREM) developed at UNH.
“Complex applications like EMMREM are able to leverage observations from all relevant space missions,” notes NASA’s Madhulika Guhathakurta, LWS program scientist.
A blog has been developed for PREDICCS that allows people to understand how the tool works and how to interpret the various graphs of radiation dosage.
Note’s Schwadron, “For the first time people are able to see the affects of space radiation playing out in near real-time, and this opens a new window to an otherwise invisible world.”

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“There hasn’t been enough work done to ask, ‘Is it really a showstopper and, if so, why, and what are the problems we need to solve so that it isn’t a showstopper?’”
That work has now been done, and the proof is in PREDICCS.
Among other satellite measurements used by PREDICCS are solar energetic particle data from the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation
(CRaTER) instrument on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. CRaTER, whose principal investigator is Harlan Spence, director of EOS and a co-developer of PREDICCS, has made the most accurate and comprehensive measurements of radiation at the moon since the dawn of the space age.
During several recent large solar events in which the sun, waking from an unusually long quiet period, sent billions of tons of high-energy particles rippling through space, the radiation levels measured by CRaTER as it orbited the moon were matched almost perfectly by PREDICCS.
“For the whopping solar events of January 23 and March 27 of this year, our predictions seem to be within 20 to 30 percent of what was observed, which is incredible. These types of highly accurate comparisons have never been made before,” Schwadron says.
CRaTER, which gauges radiation doses using a high-tech material called “tissue-equivalent plastic” that mimics human muscle, has thus not only provided the validation that PREDICCS models are accurate, but has done so in the context of how the radiation data would impact human beings on the moon or on a mission to Mars.
“We needed to accurately assess what the biological impacts are to make the best quantitative comparisons between models and observations,” says Schwadron, “and having a system like this in place now is sort of like flying a trial balloon in preparation for a return to the moon and a trip to Mars.”

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NOTE / IS OUR SUN DYING

IS OUR SUN DYING
"Courtesy of SOHO/[instrument] consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA."
SCIENTIST ARE NOW STARTING TO BELIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE THAT OUR SUN IS FAR OLDER THAN ONCE THORT AND THATS ITS A DYING STAR ,FROM THE EARLY 70S OUR SUN HAS BEEN COOLING DOWN AND IT IS BEHAVING VERY UNUSUAL AND ERRATIC AS IF ITS USING UP ITS HYDROGEN TO FAST IN FACT FAR FASTER THAN SCIENTISTS CLAIM IT WOULD FOR A STAR ITS SIZE NOW IF THIS IS HAPPENING IT WILL FALL BACK ON THE NEXT ELEMENT TO BURN HELIUM AND WILL IN TIME TURN INTO A RED GIANT .IT WONT EXPLODE BECAUSE IT DOESNT HAVE THE MASS ,BUT IF OUR SUNS CORE IS SHRINKING THEN THIS WOULD EXPLAIN THE ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF OUR LIFE GIVING STAR AND THERE ARE SIGNS ITS STARTED TO EXPAND ALREADY JUST LOOK AT THE SOHO SATELLITE
IMAGES NASA ARE HAVING TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE FILTER WHEN FILMING THE SUN A SURE SIGN OUR GIANT NEIGHBOUR IS EXPANDING ,SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN IT TURNS INTO A GIANT RED STAR ,WELL ITS NOT GOOD FIRST MERCURY WILL BE VAPORIZED FOLLOWED BY VENUS THEN EARTH AND MARS ,KNOW WONDER NASA IS WORKING ON PLANS TO MOVE EARTHS ORBITAL LOCATION,ALSO A CROP CIRCLE APPEARED SHOWING THE SUN AS IT IS NOW THEN ANOTHER CIRCLE SHOWING IT EXPANDED THIS I BELIEVE IS A WARNING FROM OUR FRIENDS IN THE COSMOS OF WHATS HAPPENING.
IS THIS THE SMOKING GUN
CORNELL UNIVERSITY CONFIRMS THE MOONS AND EARTHS ORBIT HAS CHANGED
AND THAT THE SUN IS BEING BADLY EFFECTED,AND CLAIMS THE THAT THIS COULD BE THE RESULT OF A MASSIVE PLANET X TYPE OBJECT THATS COMING IN
http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0212
7.2 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES TURKEY
MANY DEAD REPORTED 23rd oct 2011
THE COMING OF NIBIRU AND THE ENDTIMES

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solar storm alert on Aug. 6, 2012

Sky News: World on alert for massive solar storm
Updated: 14:23, Monday August 6, 2012

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http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=780392








Sky News: World on alert for massive solar storm
Updated: 14:23, Monday August 6, 2012
World on alert for massive solar storm
Power grids, communications and satellites could be knocked out by a massive solar storm in the next two years, scientists warn.
Experts say the sun is reaching a peak in its 10-year activity cycle, putting the Earth at greater risk from solar storms.
Mike Hapgood, a space weather specialist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Didcot, Oxfordshire, said: 'Governments are taking it very seriously.
These things may be very rare but when they happen, the consequences can be catastrophic.'
He warned that solar storms are increasingly being put on national risk registers used for disaster planning, alongside other events like tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.
There is 12% chance of a major solar storm every decade - making them a roughly one-in-100-year event. The last major storm was more than 150 years ago.
The threat comes from magnetically-charged plasma thrown out by the sun in coronal mass ejections.
Like vast bubbles bursting off the sun's surface, they send millions of tons of gas racing through space that can engulf the Earth with as little as one day's warning.
They trigger geomagnetic storms which can literally melt expensive transformers in national power grids.
Satellites can be damaged or destroyed and radio communications - including with jet airliners - could be knocked out.
Teams of scientists in North America and Europe monitor the sun and issue warnings to governments, power companies and airline operators.
In 1989, a solar storm was blamed for taking out the entire power network in Quebec, Canada, which left millions without electricity for nine hours.
The largest was known as the Carrington event in 1859, when British astronomer Richard Carrington observed a large solar eruption that took just 17 hours to reach the Earth's atmosphere.
It caused the aurora borealis - or Northern Lights - to be seen as far south as the Caribbean.

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