What is this strange ring that has been developing on the Sun during 16-Oct?
Sunspot 1112, located in the southeast quadrant, has been the source of a giant filament that is currently stretching 400,000 km across the surface of the Sun. However, today, there appears to be development of a enormous circular ring which looks to be linking with the huge magnetic filament of sunspot 1112. Most of today’s various wavelength images of the Sun all show this feature over at the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) – NASA website.
SpaceWeather.com today reports,
A vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the Sun’s southern hemisphere today. A bright ‘hot spot’ just north of the filament’s midpoint is UV radiation from sunspot 1112. The proximity is no coincidence; the filament appears to be rooted in the sunspot below. If sunspot flares, it could cause the entire structure to erupt. This active region merits watching…
Modern Survival Blog – (Thanks MarkeyMark)
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It’s not a ring, it’s Pacman!
oh that is ominous
also: that’s no sun!
Fuck!
Looks scary.
At last my sun-weapon is nearing completion. Soon, Earthers, soon you shall learn that when you laugh at Ming you have laughed your last…
This comment is pointless as I can’t contribute to the subject… but I really wanted to say just this:
FU*K!! We’re screwed PEOPLE..
Oh my, Sauron is waking up!
its gonna get mighty toasty here on earth.
Look on the bright side (oh dear no pun intended) perhaps the Sun is having a baby sunlet ….arrhh
It’s gonna create the biggest smiley face you have ever seen and all your childhood fantasies of the sun having a smile on it will become true.
That site (Modern Survival Blog) is just plain depressing. The folks that run it must lead a very sad\stressful existence …always waiting for the worst to happen.
WE’RRRRRE DOOMED!!!!!!!
2012 will be proven right, just wait. And b ready to die
One man’s bar-b-cued armageddon is
another man’s salvation of Light and Truth.
Rejoice, non-judgement day is herenow
well that sucks.
Looks like ringworm… you can get a shampoo for that.
@WTF 2012 my arse. Wait and see. Do not pass judgment on conspiracy theories. I do say my arse but only to highlight the fact that it is a conspiracy theory until proven otherwise.
@ Wonky
Yes indeed. I would say the crazy on that blog is plenty reason to dismiss this story for now.
Anybody manage to find this on a site that isn’t full of mental? I did a brief search and got bored. Found nothing.
Oh, found it. True. Previous comment retracted (but keep the crazy).
Had to check this on the NASA website, cos could just be a Derren Brown manipulation. But it checks out. something has been developing on the Sun since 16th Oct. Hopefully it develops into something really interesting, cos TV is really boring at the moment!!!!
If that turns into a CME and heads toward Earth, we could be looking at the complete destruction of the entire planet’s electrical grid.
The sun fighting the cold. Natural chemical reaction. All will be in a happy climate soon. 2nd sun to marry our 2nd moon.
I gather this is a bad thing ….
Couldn’t be the degaussing-regaussing mechanism, that periodically reverses Earth’s magnetic field. Could it?