#solar flares

[prokopetz]

The top speedrunning discourse for 2024 will revolve around whether deliberately arranging your world record attempts to coincide with predicted peaks in solar flare activity in the hope of performing otherwise-irreproducible skips due to the resulting radiation randomly flipping bits in memory should be considered RTA legal.

[cleolinda]

On Thursday, the US government issued its first severe geomagnetic storm watch in nearly 20 years, advising the public of “at least five earth-directed coronal mass ejections” as well as sunspots covering an area 16 times wider than the earth itself. A severe geomagnetic storm, or G4, is the second-highest grade in the US government’s classification system.

Radiation from this activity will begin to hit Earth’s magnetic field on Friday and last through the weekend, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This is the migraine storm I was talking about. I think it was last month that we had a previous geomagnetic storm, and I had a two-day hangover afterwards. And I don’t usually have migraines; I have weather (air pressure) headaches. And now they’re like, oh lawd he comin’. Get out your ice packs and your OTC painkillers and your magnesium supplements and your caffeine (or not, if that makes it worse). I am not looking forward to this.

[mindblowingscience]

A severe solar storm sparked by an intense flare from the sun could reach "extreme" levels as it bombards Earth, officials with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned on Thursday (Oct. 10). Scientists with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Group (SWPC) said that a cloud of charged solar material, called a coronal mass ejection, slammed into Earth around midday, triggering a "severe" geomagnetic storm that could impact power grids and GPS and radio communications systems, as well as amplify aurora displays in regions that typically don't see them.

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[pi-slices]

Solar Flares.

[fizzyxcustard]

The Northern Lights were visible all over the UK last night, which is pretty much unheard of. They normally don’t really get seen any further south than Northern England.

I’m in the West Midlands, and was sat in the garden for over an over. These images were taken on my iPhone camera using long exposure.

A dream came true for me last night. 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️

[theogoracle]

just as the sun needs the moon, darkness cannot exist without light 🌟

[magpie-murder]

quote; Solar Flares // @bluegarners

this is my (first) piece for @dickgraysonbigbang ! i was paired with the absolutely phenomenal @bluegarners to draw for her fic, Solar Flares. i'm not being dramatic when i say this is the best fic i've read IN MY LIFE. i couldn't stop myself from drawing a second piece for this fic, which will be uploaded when chapter two is up. keep your eyes out for fic fanart in the future— there are two more art ideas that i just did not have the time to get to before the bang deadline was up and i am just WAY too attached to this fic to let them go

[bluegarners]

Paul Guest, from “1987.”//solar flares//New Teen Titans Vol. 7, #55//solar flares//Nightwing 2011, Issue 7//solar flares//Prodigal Arc, Robin #13//unknown

[vox-anglosphere]

The northern skies have been dancing earlier than usual this year..

[marbleleague]

2024 Curling Podium: 🥇Green Ducks 🥈Wolfpack 🥉Solar Flares

[alephnaughts-n-taucrosses]

i forgor i posted this on discord

[cleolinda]

and Alabama

The sun @ me: You. You specifically get a migraine

[mindblowingscience]

An international collaboration that includes an Oregon State University astrophysicist has identified a phenomenon, likened to the quick-footed movements of an iconic cartoon predator, that proves a 19-year-old theory regarding how solar flares are created. Findings of the study led by Juraj Lorincik of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute were published in Nature Astronomy.

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[disredspectful]

All I want for Christmas is to learn more about solar wind

Here's a teaser:

I spoke with the chief of science at NASA, Nicky Fox, to understand why the probe is being tortured so. Before moving to NASA headquarters, Fox was the project scientist for the Parker Solar Probe, and she explained that scientists really want to understand the origins of the solar wind.

This is the stream of charged particles that emanate from the Sun's outermost layer, the corona. Scientists have been wondering about this particular mystery for longer than half a century, Fox explained.

"Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind," she said.

Way back in the 1950s, before we had satellites or spacecraft to measure the Sun's properties, Parker predicted the existence of this solar wind. The scientific community was pretty skeptical about this idea—many ridiculed Parker, in fact—until the Mariner 2 mission started measuring the solar wind in 1962.

As the scientific community began to embrace Parker's theory, they wanted to know more about the solar wind, which is such a fundamental constituent of the entire Solar System. Although the solar wind is invisible to the naked eye, when you see an aurora on Earth, that's the solar wind interacting with Earth's magnetosphere in a particularly violent way.

Only it is expensive to build a spacecraft that can get to the Sun. And really difficult, too.

Now, you might naively think that it's the easiest thing in the world to send a spacecraft to the Sun. After all, it's this big and massive object in the sky, and it's got a huge gravitational field. Things should want to go there because of this attraction, and you ought to be able to toss any old thing into the sky, and it will go toward the Sun. The problem is that you don't actually want your spacecraft to fly into the Sun or be going so fast that it passes the Sun and keeps moving. So you've got to have a pretty powerful rocket to get your spacecraft in just the right orbit.

[psychologicalwarclaire]

As a writer, metaphors and similes are everything to me. Compare the lights to everything else, but that doesn't stop them from being breathtaking on their own.

They flicker like a candle, undulate like seaweed, streak like a waterfall, billow like curtains, pulse like a heartbeat, and reflect like rainbow sunlight in my grandma's living room. Solid as coliseum columns.

The sun said hello at one in the morning. To one side, the stars in their pinhole clusters. To the other, pillars of palpable power.

I have never seen the northern lights before. It has always been at the very top of my bucket list.

Like all fire, the fire in the sky stole my breath. What a sight I must have been cackling in the darkness, arms outstretched, a cold cold nose, and a heart flickering in time with the sky.