Largest Sunspot In a Quarter Century Spews Flares

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @05:06PM from the good-thing-mother-earth-knows-how-to-duck-and-weave dept.

schwit1 writes: The largest sunspot seen in about a quarter century has produced another powerful X-class flare today, the sixth in less than a week. "This was the sixth X-class solar flare from NOAA 2192, a record for the number of X-class flares generated by a single group so far this solar cycle. It was also the fourth X-class flare since last Friday, continuing a period of intense flaring activity. This sunspot group has grown again a bit, and maintains its magnetic complexity. A degradation of the HF radio-communication was observed over South-America, the Caribbean, and West-Africa." The last sentence is referring to some radio communications blackouts that have occurred in these areas because of the flares.

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Oh shit by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-28 17:18 · Score: 0, Funny

The world is ending! Obama is the anitchrist! 2016 is the end of humanity!
Time to arm ourselves and run to the shelters! Jesus save us!
Re:Quarter Century by the_Bionic_lemming · 2014-10-28 17:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Is that what a quarter century means?
Wow!

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Clearly Global Warming by blogagog · 2014-10-28 23:59 · Score: 1, Funny

Recent computer models predicted that increased CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere would cause catastrophic sunspots. Yet more proof that global warming is real!