Hole in the Sun !

[MsMollimizz]

My heart skipped a beat when I saw this ! It's scary !
http://news.yahoo.com/spacecraft-sees-g ... 40642.html

A space telescope aimed at the sun has spotted a gigantic hole in the solar atmosphere — a dark spot that covers nearly a quarter of our closest star, spewing solar material and gas into space.

The so-called coronal hole over the sun's north pole came into view between July 13 and 18 and was observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. NASA released a video of the sun hole as seen by the SOHO spacecraft, showing the region as a vast dark spot surrounded by solar activity.

Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun's surface. Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun's atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.

"While it’s unclear what causes coronal holes, they correlate to areas on the sun where magnetic fields soar up and away, failing to loop back down to the surface, as they do elsewhere," NASA's Karen Fox at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., explained in an image description.

These holes are not uncommon, but their frequency changes with the solar activity cycle. The sun is currently reaching its 11-year peak in activity, known as the solar maximum. Around the time of this peak, the sun's poles switch their magnetism. The number of coronal holes typically decreases leading up to the switch.

After the reversal, new coronal holes appear near the poles. Then as the sun approaches the solar minimum again, the holes creep closer to the equator, growing in both size and number, according to NASA.

The $1.27-billion (1 billion euros) SOHO satellite was launched in 1995 and is flying a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). It watches solar activity from an orbit about the Lagrange Point 1, a gravitationally stable spot between Earth and the sun that is about 932,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet.

[Kassandra]

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Yeah, I was reading about that yesterday. Here's another article: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science ... ark-spots/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPuzX2ix3k



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[MsMollimizz]

Kassandra,
So...what are your thoughts about it ?
When I saw that I thought...okay we are getting closer
to our Sun is starting to die out
...or we are going to get that huge solar flare
like the one in 1898. When that one hit we were
lucky then because there was only morse code
lines. The program also stated if it were to happen
again now, we'd loose all electronics ! Something
to think about, huh ?

Gentle White Light
MsMollimizz

[Kassandra]

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Well, my thoughts are a little unconventional, I guess. My thought is that it's unfortunate we people of Earth have such a limited view of the Universe and all its complexity, and our place in it. We've been grossly misinformed by those in a position to tell us the truth, but choose not to. The purpose of that is to keep our spirits in a constant state of fear and agitation. So, like Pavlov's well-trained dog, we look at ourselves and our lives and our material possessions and we think, "this is it, there's nothing else out there, if we lose this we lose it all." Nothing could be farther from the truth. There's a lot more to our spirits than just what (we think) we see and experience daily. There's sooooo much more.

Like I said, my thoughts are a little unconventional. This planet going bye-bye never really worried me. We'd have choices if it did --some of us may opt to remain in spirit form, and forego a 3D existence altogether. Others might opt to reincarnate to other lives, maybe live on other planets, and just keep going. There are many other planets out there, many, many other forms of life, along with many other dimensions of existence. Death, as we've been lead to think of it, is really an illusion. This was really brought home to me through mediumship (I don't think in this lifetime I will fully appreciate the gift of peace that my reading work provided me, what those we call "the dead" have taught me; I tend to take it for granted).

Well, now I bet you wish you hadn't ask me to share my thoughts, haha.

As far as what's going on with the sun right now, I've been told it's a normal part of the "solar cycle" (whatever that means). A friend of mine, who's into this kind of stuff, sent an email to me that said,

"Well, we are at the point in the solar cycle where things can be active. It's mainly a deterioration of the magnetic flux lines before a pole reversal. It forms what is called a coronal hole. No biggie.

Every solar cycle, the sun reverses its magnetic field, and goes through a pole reversal. So that's why the magnetic field lines diminish in strength, and more matter gets ejected into space.

Kinda like how the magnetic field strength around the earth is dropping in intensity right now, and the poles are beginning to run like rabbits. The last I checked, the north magnetic pole is moving about 40 miles or more per year.

You can see it in the aviation charts. In one state, they used to have to compensate 8 degrees of magnetic deviation to true north. Now, it's 1.5 degrees. Moving damned fast."


...whatever that all means. I just said, "OK, thanks." lol



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[raynelae]

Kassandra, I love reading the things you write!

[Kassandra]

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I love writing the things you read! (...that I wrote, lol)

Good to "see" you, raynelea, hope things are well.


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[AncientSideEffects]

I love magick but above all I love science. This, phenomenon, happens as the poles if the sun shift. Its normal and common. The size however, suggests a large solar flare in the future. The last one happened a few decades ago. It caused a power outage when the Aura Borealis lasted for almost 2 days(if I remember right) This is normal. The fear is if it travels fast enough and doesn't weaken enough, it can cause sever storms to form and severely damage the atmosphere or even reverse the poles of earth. It all depends on how the magnetosphere that surrounds earth is shaped when it hits.
That's the basic gist of what all that means. Expect the worst but hope for the best. Or we can all help. As I'm sure has been done for all these years to maintain the earths stability and ability to support us.
How can we help? Aural expansion. Its relatively simple, but exhausting. I've gotten pretty good control of mine. I can seem invisible to most but those who get close enough, or known to everyone that I'm around. Its fun but be careful. Like i said its exhausting.

[AncientSideEffects]

Kassandra,
So...what are your thoughts about it ?
When I saw that I thought...okay we are getting closer
to our Sun is starting to die out
...or we are going to get that huge solar flare
like the one in 1898. When that one hit we were
lucky then because there was only morse code
lines. The program also stated if it were to happen
again now, we'd loose all electronics ! Something
to think about, huh ?

Gentle White Light
MsMollimizz

The sun will never burn out. It has an infinite fuel source under the corona. Atoms break and bounce creating, breaking, and recreating hydrogen.

[Firebird]

The sun will never burn out.

Isn't a burnt out sun what causes a black hole?
FF

[Kassandra]

Isn't a burnt out sun what causes a black hole?
FF

Yes.

Once a giant star dies and a black hole has formed, all its mass is squeezed into a single point. At this point, both space and time stop. It's very hard for us to imagine a place where mass has no volume and time does not pass, but that's what it is like at the center of a black hole.
Source: http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/BH/blktxt.html



...but supposedly our Little Guy in the Sky is not big enough to become a black hole, but it will instead "die a quiet death."

A black hole is defined by the escape velocity that would have to be attained to escape from the gravitational pull exerted upon an object.Only stars with very large masses can become black holes. Our sun/star, Sol, for example, is not massive enough to become a black hole. Four billion years from now when the Sun runs out of the available nuclear fuel in its core, our Sun will die a quiet death. Stars of this type end their history as white dwarf stars. More massive stars, such as those with masses of over 20 times our Sun's mass, may eventually create a black hole. When a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel it can no longer sustain its own weight and begins to collapse. When this occurs the star heats up and some fraction of its outer layer, which often still contains some fresh nuclear fuel, activates the nuclear reaction again and explodes in what is called a supernova. The remaining innermost fraction of the star, the core, continues to collapse. Depending on how massive the core is, it may become either a neutron star and stop the collapse or it may continue to collapse into a black hole. The dividing mass of the core, which determines its fate, is about 2.5 solar masses. It is thought that to produce a core of 2.5 solar masses the ancestral star should begin with over 20 solar masses. A black hole formed from a star is called a stellar black hole.
Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 211AAkddLX





Our little guy is shown in Illustration #3, second from the right. Next to it is the Sirius star (not sure which one, A or
B, but anyways...). Yet, in Illustration #4 Sirius is just a little guy on the far left. We could see how our sun sizes up
with those of other star systems. In some cases it is, relatively speaking, little more than just a pin dot, making you and I little more than what we'd think of as a one-celled amoeba, by comparison.

The sun will never burn out.

Never say never, my friend, never say never.






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[Firebird]

Isn't this cool? I feel like I'm in science class Interesting thread. I used to go up to the Griffith Observatory all the time with my daughter when she was little, great place! and it was free!!! I think it still is, anyway...the display of the solar system caving in on itself always freaked me out, maybe someone else remembers this one...it is like a giant funnel and a big pinball sized orb (the orb represents earth) comes shooting out at the top of the funnel and circles around and around the rim..the center of the funnel represents the Sun, eventually the orb starts to spin down the funnel where it goes through the hole >>boom<< though we know this will not happen in our lifetime, it will happen someday.
The shift in the poles of the Sun is a regular occurrence, but to shift the poles of the Earth? now this is worrisome...
FF

[Kassandra]

I used to go up to the Griffith Observatory all the time with my daughter when she was little, great place! and it was free!!! I think it still is

What a great mom. You took your kid to some neat places. You guys still have a lot of fun together.


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[Pinkpower_80]

I feel like such a noob for not realizing the sun's poles shifted lol.
That picture is pretty wicked looking! I love to sit & ponder about what is going on way up there.

[Firebird]

What a great mom. You took your kid to some neat places. You guys still have a lot of fun together.

Ahh geee...thanks, we did what we could, ya know...money was tight so I we went there a lot because it was free. We camped because it was less expensive than a motel, but then we liked to camp, so we still do that, but WOW the prices of camping are tremendous lately. Our favorite beach camp is now 45 dollars a night! ACK, I remember when it was $6.

but Hey..., back to the SUN,... I found a real good link, ( National Geographic has always been my favorite) with some interactive maps, this might be fun to read with the kids.
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s ... n-article/
many blessings, for a day of BALANCE! (Merry Mabon!)
Firebird

[Kassandra]

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I love magick but above all I love science.

The more I learn about either, the more I'm inclined to believe they're one in the same.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0I2ZrBuFdQ




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