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Earth Directed CME On Its Way, Geomagnetic Storms Expected, Sun Erupted At 4:24 EDT, August 20th

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On August 20, 2013 at 4:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon which can send billions of tons of particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later. These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.

 
The SOHO LASCO C2 instrument captured this image of the Earth-directed CME. SOHO’s coronographs are able to take images of the solar corona by blocking the light coming directly from the Sun with an occulter disk. The location of the actual sun is shown with an image taken by SDO.

Image Credit: ESA & NASA/SOHO, SDO

Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 570 miles per second, which is a fairly typical speed for CMEs.

Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they funnel energy into Earth’s magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. The CME’s magnetic fields peel back the outermost layers of Earth’s fields changing their very shape. In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs of this strength have usually been mild.

 
The SOHO LASCO C3 instrument captured this coronographic image of the Earth-directed CME. The bright white object to the right is the planet Mercury.

Image Credit: ESA & NASA/SOHO

Magnetic storms can degrade communication signals and cause unexpected electrical surges in power grids. They also can cause aurora.

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (http://swpc.noaa.gov) is the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.

 
Contacts and sources: 

Susan Hendrix
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center



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    • xKlrRussian

      Can you find some information about an object in SOHO LASCO C3 on August 20 2013, 19:30 to the bottom left of the sun. Venus has light coming from the sides as expected and another object to the left of the sun but smaller and moving slow, but this object has the same light emitted but only for 2 frames and it is gone. If distance is relative to that of Venus and other object, wouldn’t that mean that this object is in our solar system?

    • dr Meno

      OH MY GOD it is the end of the world today. Audios.
      Another National Enquire story.

      • AmbrociousXP

        I know it’s fun to make fun of stories like this but sometimes, you really aught to pay attention.

      • Jwrench

        Not the end of the world that’s for sure. But we are experiencing some effects of the CME’s that hit us. One indicator is earthquakes. When a CME hit’s earth, we shake. The other way to tell is the environmental plots: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html

        You can also check out suspicious0bservers.org/spaceweather

        The guy there does a great job updating his site with current space weather and how it effects our planet.

        • AmbrociousXP

          Not to mention that CME’s let in a lot of space radiation and other energy which often times causes storms on Earth, BIG storms.

        • Freeamerican

          So do chemtrails and haarp.

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