Latest amazingly beautiful CME

EDIT: Due to new helioviewer video of the CME.
Absoultely have not seen anything like this.
One huge filament of mass hurling out of the sun and then crashing back down.
Has this been seen before?



From the M Class flare a little earlier. I posted in the solar watch forum but I had really pretty pictures from helioviewer.org and I wanted y'all to see them. And this is my one big promotion for HELIOVIEWER as it is just amazing to watch the sun do its thing.

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Pictures like these are scary, beautiful, awe-inspiring, and thought-provoking. The sheer power is mesmerizing. It's just hard to fathom the size of the CME's, let alone the Sun! Very pretty pictures, thank you for posting them. Also, thanks for the links.

Wow great pictures OP, thanks for uploading them !

And to think there are things in space that are millions of times bigger than our sun. Amazing. S&F

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Is it heading this way. And when will it arrive. There has been a bit of activity with flares this last week or so. My cell phone has been getting really poor reception. Spends all day looking for a strong signal. Im not on the new XT or 3g network. Anyone else here in NZ having the same probs. If it is these flares, then i dont need to go and get a new phone.
By the way. My phone has been working perfectly before the solar storm that started last week.

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Go and watch the play by play on helioviewer. It all started at 06:16:00 on 6/7/2011. I swear that filament probably has a diameter near equal to earth and its five time that in length.

That is a lot of mass.

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Wait, are you saying theres been a solar storm, My reception has started getting bad but only in certain areas, when normally its fine, been happening past 2 weeks ?

Flares are interacting with our earths magnetic field ?

Its only a matter of time before the Nutrinos start to heat the earths crust and we get earth crust displacement

Sorry i watched 2012 last night Good movie though

The moon has been really dark red the past few days i love it.

We should be hit by this when? I was wondering if anything was going on because yesterday we had so many problems with our internet connection! It was really frustrating.

Amazing pictures and link. Thanks for sharing

I have been trying to find out if this is Earth directed but haven't come across anything yet that mentions this.

What t.. f... is going on with the sun these days?

I wonder why there is no warning posted on the spaceweather site? Helioviewer is not working since yesterday...? Strange

Here is another one of this huge flare-cme...
Notice how the time from the beginning of the blast is missing....jump of cca. 5 hours - missing?

from 02:00 to 07:40 is deleted from soho - Why?

Nice pictures ..




Sun is very active end by more in next days ..
Strong magnetosphere storms in next days(h) especially on 11.06 min. 24 hours long, earthquakes or volcano possibility ..

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I post on my thread some other pictures end info for that event ..


www.abovetopsecret.com...


Peace ..

It looks like this will hit us arround 11.06.2011 ?

That is just staggering! I dont think I've ever seen that much matter ejected, could be wrong and probably am. But that still is really out of this world.

If it does hit us I hope to God that we have clear skies instead of this pissy rain; been a good few years since I last saw the aurora.

damn, totally cloudy over here since the weekend, so I can't even get my solar telescope out

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That is a great graph! I'm not sure what I'm looking at. It would help if you gave a little info on what it is showing. I think I figured it out. It is showing the when the earth will intersect with the solar flare. I know I'm not the brightest bulb on the string though.

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Is showing when end how strong or fast CME,s hit Earth magnetosphere, also showing solar wind from coronal holes ..

Yellow dot present Earth, that solar wind from 11.06 is from coronal hole ..

Is periodic time for coronal holes wind, on that graphic also you can see when suddenly CME's appear on Sun end when they hit Earth magnetosphere ..

I hope you can understood, my English is bad end sry for that ..


Peace ..

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Better video, that exists.

June 7, 2011 - A dramatic eruption from an otherwise unimpressive NOAA Region 1226 earlier today is expected to cause G1 (minor) to G2 (moderate) levels of Geomagnetic Storm activity tomorrow, June 8, beginning around 1800 UTC with the passage of a fast CME. A prompt Solar Radiation Storm reached the S1 (minor) level soon after the impulsive R1 (minor) Radio Blackout at 0641 UTC. The Solar Radiation Storm includes a significant contribution of high energy (>100 MeV) protons, the first such occurrence of an event of that type since December 2006.

swpc.noaa.gov