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Related: About this forumThree X-class Solar Flares in 24 Hours 5/13-14
Third Update: May 14, 9 a.m. EDT
The sun emitted a third significant solar flare in under 24 hours, peaking at 9:11 p.m. EDT on May 13, 2013. This flare is classified as an X3.2 flare. This is the strongest X-class flare of 2013 so far, surpassing in strength the two X-class flares that occurred earlier in the 24-hour period.
The flare was also associated with a coronal mass ejection, or CME. The CME began at 9:30 p.m. EDT and was not Earth-directed. Experimental NASA research models show that the CME left the sun at approximately 1,400 miles per second, which is particularly fast for a CME. The models suggest that it will catch up to the two CMEs associated with the earlier flares. The merged cloud of solar material will pass by the Spitzer spacecraft and may give a glancing blow to the STEREO-B and Epoxi spacecraft. Their mission operators have been notified. If warranted, operators can put spacecraft into safe mode to protect the instruments from solar material.
(more at link) http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News051213-flare.html
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Three X-class Solar Flares in 24 Hours 5/13-14 (Original Post)
Divine Discontent
May 2013
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)1. We've been watching! Amazing.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)2. I'd like to know where I could find some new age music like that.
This adds to the visuals really well. I like it.
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)3. Yeah, it does. beautiful music...
to watch the sun burn up to!
this image is amazing (sun's sphere blocked out, and just the flare/coronal emission showing)!
It's gettin' hot in herr!
FloridaJudy
(9,465 posts)4. It's all Obama's fault n/t
radhika
(1,008 posts)5. One each for IRS, AP and Benghazi....n/t