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The_Sun-489332main_euvfilament-20101016-2.jpgIntense Solar Activity on the Sun: Sunspot 1112 and Solar Flares87 visiteOctober 16, 2010 - Fast-growing sunspot 1112 is crackling with solar flares. The three strongest of this 24 hour period: an M3-flare at 1910 UT on Oct. 16th, a C1-flare at 0900 UT and another C1-flare at 1740 UT on Oct. 17th. So far, none of the blasts has hurled a substantial CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) toward Earth.
In addition, a vast Filament of Magnetism is cutting across the Sun's Southern Hemisphere, measuring about 400.000 Km. 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 the Sunspot flares, it could cause the entire structure to erupt. But so far, none of the Flares has destabilized the Filament.MareKromium
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Coronal Mass Ejection.jpgA "Coronal Mass Ejection"86 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Magnetic fields buckle releasing previously constrained hot material from the upper atmosphere of the Sun. As a result, hot gas streams out into the Solar System, impacting planets, moons, spacecraft, and making space a dangerous place for astronauts. Known as "Coronal Mass Ejections" (CMEs), billions of tons of scathing plasma can be accelerated to millions of miles per hour. CMEs are more common but less intense than solar flares".
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Solar Flares.jpgSolar Flares86 visiteCaption NASA originale:"On June, 14th, 1999, SOHO observatory recorded this stunning view of an immense prominence erupting from the Sun's southern latitudes. The false-color image was made in the extreme Ultraviolet light produced by ionized Helium atoms in the solar plasma".
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Hungarian Eclypse.jpgMoments of the last Total Eclipse86 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the Solar Corona easily visible from Earth. Normally overwhelmed by the bright solar disk, the expansive corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, is an alluring sight. But the subtle details and extreme ranges in the corona's brightness discernible to the eye are notoriously difficult to photograph. In this series of images recorded from Siofok, Hungary during the total phase of the August 11, 1999 eclipse, progressively longer exposures (top left to bottom center) have been used to more faithfully capture different regions of the elusive solar corona. The final image (at bottom right) shows light from the solar disk emerging from behind the moon's edge at the end of totality".
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The Sun from SOHO.jpgAnagliph of the Sun86 visitenessun commento
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Solar_Corona_vangorp_big.jpgSolar Corona86 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del giorno 26 Luglio 2009:"Most photographs don't adequately portray the magnificence of the Sun's Corona. Seeing the Corona first-hand during a Total Solar Eclipse is best. The human eye can adapt to see features and extent that photographic film usually cannot.
Welcome, however, to the digital age. The above picture is a combination of 33 photographs that were digitally processed to highlight faint features of a Total Eclipse that occurred in March of 2006. The images of the Sun's Corona were digitally altered to enhance dim, outlying waves and filaments. Shadow seekers need not fret, though, since as yet there is no way that digital image processing can mimic the fun involved in experiencing a Total Solar Eclipse.
Last week, a spectacular Total Solar Eclipse occurred over Southern Asia, while the the next Total Solar Eclipse will be visible from the South Pacific on July, 11, 2010".MareKromium
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BlueSun.jpgBlue Sun85 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del giorno 4 Novembre 2009:"Our Sun may look like all soft and fluffy, but it is not. Our Sun is an extremely large ball of bubbling hot gas, mostly Hydrogen gas. The above picture of our Sun was taken last month in a specific red color of light emitted by Hydrogen gas called "Hydrogen-alpha" and then color inverted to appear blue.
In this light, details of the Sun's Chromosphere are particularly visible, highlighting numerous thin tubes of magnetically-confined hot gas known as spicules rising from the Sun like bristles from a shag carpet.
Our Sun glows because it is hot, but it is not on fire. Fire is the rapid acquisition of Oxygen, and there is very little Oxygen on the Sun. The energy source of our Sun is the nuclear fusion of Hydrogen into Helium deep within its core. No Sunspots or large active regions were visible on the Sun this day, although some Solar Prominences are visible around the edges".MareKromium
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Solar_Prominence~0.jpgSolar Prominence85 visiteCaption NASA, da "NASA - Picture of the Day" del giorno 23 Marzo 2010:"Dramatic Prominences can sometimes be seen looming just beyond the edge of the Sun.
Such was the case last week as a Giant Prominence, visible above on the right, highlighted a Sun showing increased activity as it comes off an unusually quiet Solar Minimum. A changing carpet of hot gas is visible in the Chromosphere of the Sun in the above image taken in a very specific color of light emitted by Hydrogen.
A Solar Prominence is a cloud of Solar Gas held just above the Surface by the Sun's Magnetic Field. The Earth would easily fit below the Prominence on the right. Although very hot, Prominences typically appear dark when viewed against the Sun, since they are slightly cooler than the Surface.
A quiescent Prominence typically lasts about a month, and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) expelling hot gas into the Solar System. The next day, the same prominence looked slightly different".MareKromium
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Athmosferic_Corona-Schneider.jpgDiamond Ring and Shadow Bands85 visiteDalla Rubrica "NASA - Picture of the Day" del giorno 24 Luglio 2010:"As the total phase of July ,11th, 2010 Solar Eclipse came to an end, Sunlight streaming past the edge of the Moon's silhouette created the fleeting appearance of a glistening Diamond Ring in the sky.
Seen through a thin cloud layer from the French Polynesian atoll of Hao it also produced remarkable Shadow Bands, flickering across the dramatic scene. Projected onto the cloud layer, the Shadow Bands are parallel to the sliver of Sunlight emerging from behind the Moon's edge.
Caused by turbulence in Earth's Atmosphere refracting the sliver of Sunlight, the narrow bands were captured in this brief, 1/400th second exposure. Shining through the cloud droplets, the Sunlight also produced a luminous atmospheric corona, not to be confused with the Solar Corona seen during Eclipse Totality.
The Atmospheric Corona is centered on the bright diamond of emerging Sunlight".MareKromium
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The_Sun-489332main_euvfilament-20101016-3.jpgIntense Solar Activity on the Sun: Sunspot 1112 and Solar Flares85 visiteImage of Sunspot Region 1112 (dated October, 18. 2010) as it continues to rotate towards the South Eastern Rim of the Sun.MareKromium
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Sun & Comet (dtl-mgnf).jpgA comet approaching the Sun (from SOHO) - detail mgnf84 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Based on their similar orbits, as first worked out by 19th century German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, all "sungrazers" are believed to originate from a single large "parent comet" which broke up during a perihelion passage perhaps 2.000 years ago. Over time, pieces have continued to split off producing a family of smaller comets which seem to travel in the same orbit".
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Coronal Loops-TRACE.jpgCoronal loops84 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 14 Agosto 2005:"Why is the Corona of the Sun so hot? Extending above the photosphere or visible surface of the Sun, the faint, tenuous Solar Corona can't be easily seen from Earth, but it is measured to be hundreds of times hotter than the photosphere itself. Astronomers have long sought the source of the Corona's heat in magnetic fields which loft monstrous loops of solar plasma above the photosphere. Detailed observations of coronal loops from the orbiting TRACE satellite are pointing more closely to the unidentified energy source. Recorded in extreme ultraviolet light, this and other TRACE images indicate that significant heating occurs low in the corona, near the bases of the loops as they emerge from and return to the solar surface. This tantalizing TRACE image shows clusters of the majestic, hot coronal loops which span 30 or more times the diameter of planet Earth".
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