Coronal explosion 10x the size of the sun.

stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...




You can see a VIDEO of all thumb nails here:

video.godlikeproductions.com...]

Searching NASA.gov now for possible direction of this CME blast.

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scary!
keep us updated!

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yo i saw that for a second before. I'm pretty sure that's not a joke but spaceweather, nasa, stereo/soho/sdo nobody is reporting it!

If we get a huge earthquake in the next couple of days we'll know the culprit for sure..

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.... also, the photo's say that the picture's were taken for the "ahead" spacecraft which means earth is going to receive a healthy dose of plasma, hope to god this isn't going to be as bad as i think it is, because that thing is f***ing huge.

Wow that is big [insert "that's what she said" here], was it facing us ??? If it was I'm sure that would cause problems

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heres the video

www.youtube.com...

any ideas if it was in our direction?

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it's below us but it'll glance the southern hemisphere.

This is a call to all the astro_aware ATSers out there, OP chadwickus etc. when can we expect this thing to hit? It looks huge! I stay in South Africa, will we be on the leeward side or facing it directly when it hits? What sort of magnitude is this? from knowledge of previous sizes, not from the Class (who knows who could tamper with this). Should we be worried?

Lots of questions I'm sorry, Recently watched The Knowing, forgive me.S&F

Oh great . Im in the southern hemisphere. Just what we needed. More doom and gloom.

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lol you should be worried this is the biggest one in awhile, what's freaking me out also is that usually as soon as these flares pop up they're immediately recorded by spaceweather.com or the stero/soho/sdo solar observatory satellites and observatories.

judging by the size i'd say it'll take 24 hours from the explosion

WOW, that does look scary...

I want to know also if this is going to hit us... heres a bump for the soho watchers.

What will be the effects if it does hit?

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if it hits us nice and square i'll get a good view of the aurora here in jersey, and your cell phone wont work

It looks scary, but as far as I am reading is only producing minor C-class flares. Further, I believe it is located on the far side of the sun -- not facing, nor directed, towards Earth.

The solar X-Rays were hovering near the C1 level early on Sunday. Sunspot 1184 which is located towards the east of 1183 appears to be growing again. There will continue to be the chance for atleast C-Class flares.

The solar wind stream which was elevated over 600 km/s did stir up minor geomagnetic activity at high latitudes over the past few days.

and

In the latest STEREO COR Behind and Ahead images, a big explosion and CME is seen. This may have been attributed to the long duration C-Class flare from early on Sunday. It appears to be a farside event thus far.

Source: www.solarham.com...

I have confirmed the above with another site as well:

We expect quiet space weather conditions to prevail for the next 48 hours.
An eruption occurred in the vicinity of NOAA AR 1178 and plage 1176 early on April 3rd, with typical post-flare loop arcades. A CME was observed by the COR2 coronagraph onboard Stereo A spacecraft. Due the location of this event close the limb, we expect little, if any, geomagnetic effects.

Source: SIDC

Originally posted by lpowell0627
I have confirmed the above with another site as well:

We expect quiet space weather conditions to prevail for the next 48 hours.
An eruption occurred in the vicinity of NOAA AR 1178 and plage 1176 early on April 3rd, with typical post-flare loop arcades. A CME was observed by the COR2 coronagraph onboard Stereo A spacecraft. Due the location of this event close the limb, we expect little, if any, geomagnetic effects.

Source: SIDC

How could something that large, not affect us in any way?

This link shows more astro-linked resources regarding the ejection..

Strictly Honest

EDIT: Flag, Flag, Flag, we need to get more people who know about this to read...!!

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Did you check the date? this article is dated 3rd August 2010.

Originally posted by stygmartyrZA
This article says that it's headed straight for us...
Link