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http://www.spaceweather.com/ PHotos at linkGREAT FILAMENT, CONTINUED: For the seventh day in a row, an enormous magnetic filament is hanging suspended above the surface of the sun's southern hemisphere. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has a great view. How long can it last? Solar filaments are unpredictable. If this one collapses and hits the stellar surface, the impact could produce a powerful Hyder flare. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments.

This is actually a big deal. There is no mention of this activity in the news at all I have looked. If this turns into a Hyder Flare who knows what might happen since they say this is the largest they have seen.

Wow that is scary! It really hammers home the fact that our sun is basically just a massive hydrogen fusion reactor only just held in check by gravity.

I hope thats not one of those flares which can knock out satellites and power generators on earth,as they say it might be heading our way.

Most North American and European, and I suspect the majority of industrialized nations, utility systems have been hardened against solar flares since that one took out most of the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canadian power grids, back in, what was it, the early or middle 70's? Still, if it's powerful enough, it could still do some damage.You might want to have your computers and TVs turned off, if you get any warning.

volrider wrote:
Most North American and European, and I suspect the majority of industrialized nations, utility systems have been hardened against solar flares since that one took out most of the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canadian power grids, back in, what was it, the early or middle 70's? Still, if it's powerful enough, it could still do some damage.
March 13,1989 look it up,thought it around the mid ninties myself.