Always the Sun ☀️

Nasa Sun Science

Catching up on some Solar stuff. These were meant to be posted a few days back, but I was unable to get to it, apologies. It has been an intense month, and these past couple of weeks were....no idea how to describe it. I thought 2020 was crazy and could not possible get any crazier, but 2021 was even crazier, and now 2022....

Let's start with the video clip of this burst which occurred on 22 August 2022, a screenshot of which is shown at the top of this post.

Here's all the flaring for August so far:

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/archive.html

Solar Observer has loads of great resources, as usual. Here are some of them, like this flare!

Solar Observer

And this is some news about a developing Sunspot.

 

Now on to something from 2003. I watched this intriguing video from MrMBB333 a couple of weeks back, thought of posting it, then decided "No".  A few days after that, I somehow came across this piece of information without even looking for it, so I guess I'll post it now😄 This is the chart I saw:

Space Weather Live

 

Those geomagnetic storms were way off the charts! Unfortunately I had not started my Solar thing at that time, so I honestly haven't a clue what took place. I was already not following any mainstream media then, and internet resources were still limited, so I was blissfully unaware of any Solar carnage. Nasa called this activity "Halloween Storms of 2003". How lovely, of course they would 🙄🙄🙄

There's some write-up about this from Space.com. As seen from the above chart, the measurements were off the scale, and it was estimated that the actual strength of the flares reached X45.

On this page from Space Weather Live, you can watch the actual flares from 2003.

Let's go back even further in history, all the way back to 1986. This is an 80s classic from The Stranglers called "Always the Sun" and one of my all-time favourites.

Yes....those were the days when music was innovative, had actual melodies, clever lyrics (sometimes witty to boot) that usually rhymed. And had actual words instead of being filled with sounds like hmmm ahhh oooh....I feel a rant coming on so I'll stop now 😇

 

Interesting that the song/video is 3:33 minutes in length. I also just realised that the link for Solar Observer starts with 333.....

https://www.facebook.com/The-Solar-Observer-333532020078054

And then there's MrMBB333....

Namaste and Bright Blessings! 💝