Solar flares

oleg · #1 November 5th, 2003, 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Hey everybody. I see from SOHO that our dependable sun is at it again - Biggest solar flare in quite a while {Link}. Now these flares can occasionally cause some minor problems on Earth. But I wonder about other stars and other planets....

It is getting bigger and bigger !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3242353.stm

I wonder if our Sun will go Nova soon

henk brouwer · #2 November 5th, 2003, 01:18 PM

The new solar flare will probably be rated X40 or higher (which is HUGE):

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...re_031105.html

It's twice as high as the most powerfull flare ever detected with satellites. It's not directed at earth though.

Last weeks flare was directed at earth, and I got to see the Northern lights for the first time in my life

very cool. A very rare event for the netherlands.

[ November 05, 2003, 11:18: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]