Sun Unleashes First X-Class Flare Of 2014, Giant Sunspots Seen
The sun emitted a significant solar flare peaking at 1:32 p.m. EST on Jan.7, 2014. This is the first significant flare of 2014, and follows on the heels of mid-level flare earlier in the day. Each flare was centered over a different area of a large sunspot group currently situated at the center of the sun, about half way through its 14-day journey across the front of the disk along with the rotation of the sun.
This movie shows imagery from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory as the sun emitted an X-class flare on Jan. 7, 2014. The movie shows light in the 1600 Angstrom wavelength showing both sunspots visible on the sun’s surface and the flare in the solar atmosphere. NOTE: This video loops 4 times.
This labeled image taken by SDO’s Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager shows the location of two active regions on the sun, labeled AR1944 and AR1943, which straddle a giant sunspot complex. A Jan. 17, 2014, X1.2-class flare emanated from an area closer to AR1943.
Image Credit: NASA/SDO
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing, anywhere from minutes to hours.
Image Credit: NASA/SDO
To see how this event may impact Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.
This flare is classified as an X1.2-class flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1, an X3 is three times as intense, etc.
This pictures combines two images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on Jan. 7, 2013. Together, the images show the location of a giant sunspot group on the sun, and the position of an X-class flare that erupted at 1:32 p.m. EST.
Image Credit: NASA/SDO
An enormous sunspot, labeled AR1944, slipped into view over the sun’s left horizon late on Jan. 1, 2014. The sunspot steadily moved toward the right, along with the rotation of the sun, and now sits almost dead center, as seen in the image above from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
One of the largest sunspots in the last nine years, labeled AR1944, was seen in early January 2014, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. An image of Earth has been added for scale.
Two of the largest sunspots in the last nine years: the one on the left is from Jan. 17, 2005, captured by ESA/NASA’s Solar Heliospheric Observatory; the one on the right is from Jan. 7, 2014, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Image Credit: ESA/NASA SOHO and NASA SDO
Sunspots are part of what’s known as active regions, which also include regions of the sun’s atmosphere, the corona, hovering above the sunspots. Active regions can be the source of some of the sun’s great explosions: solar flares that send out giant bursts of light and radiation due to the release of magnetic energy, or coronal mass ejections that send huge clouds of solar material out into space. As the sunspot group continues its journey across the face of the sun, scientists will watch how it changes and evolves to learn more about how these convoluted magnetic fields can cause space weather events that can affect space-borne systems and technological infrastructure on Earth.
Karen C. Fox
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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Thank-god it,s freezing down here on earth.
spaceweather.com doesn’t seem to think is any any big deal.
Spaceweather is a shill for the Illuminati/Masonic NWO cabal. Most conventional scientific institutions are, by the way. A direct hit from a CME off an X-Class Flare is potentially catastrophic. It all depends on the present state of Earth’s electro-magnetic shield. If it is in a contorted condition then look out. http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com
We’ll be fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZQGkVYpI4&feature=share
Wow, weatherman is an idiot
Have been getting power fluctuations here in Est Central Palm Beach county Florida the last 2 hours
webeen getting flucuations for days here in kansas. dont know what is going on. I say enjoy life while you can and rock on!
I live in Melbourne, Arkansas USA. I don’t know what is worse, the heat yall are having and that we have in the summer or the ice storm goring on outside. The solar flare is not effecting us any!
This is so cool, I watched the sunspots yesterday at sunset with just my sunglasses. I didn’t know what I was seeing, now I know.
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It’s not freezing here in Australia. We’re going through a severe heatwave at this moment.
it’s cold here but at least I can own semi-automatic guns…lol