{"id":14871,"date":"2017-09-06T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14871"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:41:30","slug":"solar-science-two-giant-solar-flares-today-update-on-the-solar-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14871","title":{"rendered":"Solar science: Two giant solar flares today + Update on the solar cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of giant flares erupted on the sun today:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2017\/two-significant-solar-flares-imaged-by-nasas-sdo\" target=\"_d\">Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA&#8217;s SDO | NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The sun emitted two significant solar flares on the morning of Sept. 6, 2017. The first peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT and the second, larger flare, peaked at 8:02 a.m. EDT.\u00a0NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured images of both events. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however \u2014 when intense enough \u2014 they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XgRFLmhSAW0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Here is Bob Zimmerman&#8217;s latest update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/products\/solar-cycle-progression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar cycle<\/a>\u00a0and the number of sunspots:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/points-of-information\/sunspot-update-for-august-2017\/\" target=\"_d\">Sunspot update for August 2017 | Behind The Black<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/services.swpc.noaa.gov\/images\/solar-cycle-sunspot-number.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14872 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/services.swpc.noaa.gov\/images\/solar-cycle-sunspot-number.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The long slow decline to solar minimum has now shown itself. Up until now, the ramp down from solar maximum had been fast and steep, unlike past solar cycles where the ramp down is slow and steady.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/points-of-information\/sunspot-update-for-july-2017\/\">The last few months<\/a>\u00a0the ramp down had practically ceased. In this August graph the ramp down turned into a temporary ramp up. Considering the strong activity going on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=05&amp;month=09&amp;year=2017\">right now<\/a>\u00a0as well as the past week, I expect the September numbers to also show this increase.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of giant flares erupted on the sun today:\u00a0Two Significant Solar Flares Imaged by NASA&#8217;s SDO | NASA The sun emitted two significant solar flares on the morning of Sept. 6, 2017. The first peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT and the second, larger flare, peaked at 8:02 a.m. EDT.\u00a0NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solar science: Two giant solar flares today + Update on the solar cycle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3RR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9925,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9925","url_meta":{"origin":14871,"position":0},"title":"Video: 5 year time-lapse of the sun with images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA Goddard marks the five year anniversary of\u00a0\u00a0the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory with some cool videos: New Videos Highlight NASA SDO's Fifth Anniversary February 11, 2015 marks five years in space for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory or SDO, which provides incredibly detailed images of the Earth-facing side of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Science&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=31"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/GSVv40M2aks\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6631,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6631","url_meta":{"origin":14871,"position":1},"title":"Video: Highlights of our sun from 4 years of SDO observations","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's\u00a0SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)\u00a0has a revamped website and great video with a music soundtrack displaying spectacular images of our home star:\u00a0SDO is GO: Four Years of SDO and A New Look for our Website! - SDO Blog http:\/\/youtu.be\/NAg4qXsk99c From the caption: Information about the individual clips used in this video\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Multiple media&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Multiple media","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=36"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1063,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1063","url_meta":{"origin":14871,"position":2},"title":"Coronal Rain falls fearsome hot upon the Sun","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in space recorded this awesome event on the sun last July: NASA's SDO Shows A Little Rain On the Sun - NASA - Feb.20.13 http:\/\/youtu.be\/oI9YReLbuvg From the caption: Eruptive events on the Sun can be wildly different. 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