Sun has 'flipped upside down' as new magnetic cycle begins--with video to show it

The north and south poles of the big star that lights our world have officially flipped. The midpoint of the 22 year process has happened.

Feel better about that?

Sun has 'flipped upside down' as new magnetic cycle begins--with video to show it

Current Solar Activity Cycle Is Weakest in a Century

Pretty clearly this correlates with falling global temperatures. We are all subjects to the big hot star in the sky..

Current Solar Activity Cycle Is Weakest in a Century

Green skies for St Patricks day?? Big CME unleashed from the sun

The flare and CME unleashed by the sun Friday was pointed directly at earth.. As a result a geomagnetic storm and strong northern lights are going to be the result..

In a humorous post, Space weather writes that just in time for St Patrick’s day, the sky may turn green across the United States..

And here is video of the big CME..

Unfortunately for me, it will be cloudy and SNOWING today.. So I won’t see a thing.. Hopefully my electronics still work by Sunday… Because that was one huge CME..

The Earth has been lucking out lately, but solar events continue to get stronger

The UK DAILY MAIL reports what we already seem to be aware of: Solar flares just seem to be stronger and stronger in recent months..

Last week we have been seen numerous M class flares and one strong X class flare explode from our sun. Some sunspots have been so large that they 15 Earths strung together..

2013 is expected to be the big year for solar events as the sun heads to its peak of its 11 year cycle…

And if just the right elements come together, perhaps the Ed Dames Killshot will happen. But Ed Dames is just crazy… Right?

Solar eruption “mistaken for UFO refeuling from the sun”..

Or was it a UFO………

Amazing video of the X CLASS flare

Amazing video of the X CLASS flare

Could the sun set off the next big earth disaster?

Could the sun set off the next big earth disaster?

This is what happens when a comet hits the sun. So comets, beware. You'll be eaten

This is what happens when a comet hits the sun. So comets, beware. You'll be eaten

The solar plot thickens: Federal agents have expanded their examination of the now-bankrupt California solar power company Solyndra

The solar plot thickens: Federal agents have expanded their examination of the now-bankrupt California solar power company Solyndra

FLARE!

STARING AT THE SUN: POWERFUL ERUPTION UNLEASHED
An alert by the NOAA-operated Space Weather Prediction Center stated that the solar flare could create a strong geomagnetic storm on Wednesday (June 9)

Here comes the sun... In a bad way

Here comes the sun... In a bad way

Double rainbow! ... strike that. Double solar flare.

NASA cameras had a front row view to an amazing scene in space, as solar flares erupted two sides of the sun at the same time..

NASA placed images of the solar eruption on its website with some context behind in. NASA wrote,

"This still (below) from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the Sun popped off two events at once on Jan. 28, 2011. A filament on the left side became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare (mid-sized) and a Coronal Mass Ejection on the right blasted into space. The movie (above), taken Jan. 26-28, 2011, shows several other flashes and bursts from the active region on the right as well. Neither event is headed towards Earth"

Perhaps the last sentence in their press release is the most reassuring. Neither eruption is poised to strike the little blue planet..

At least not these eruptions.

Speculation has abounded for years that we are going to go into a period of dramatic solar activity—activity that could potentially hit a high point in 2012, according to experts that have been quoted in stories over the past several months.

These two flares, perhaps more than anything, are warning shots and messages of the sun’s power.

NASA also placed a six-second video on their website of the solar activity.

While the solar flares that were visible to the world didn’t sear the world, the images are seared into the memory of all who watch the sky and wonder, one day, if that massive ball of light will turn on the planet it warms..

NASA revises sun spot projections

NASA revises sun spot projections

Stories about solar flares alarm me. They alarm me even more than they contain the term 'solar max'

AFP: The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.