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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101895 06-12-2012 04:23 AM

Record-breaking solar flare described

A NASA space telescope detected the highest-energy light ever measured in an eruption on the sun during a powerful solar blast, the space agency has reported.

This image from Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) shows how the entire sky looked on March 7 in the light of high-energy gamma rays. The sun, in the lower part of the image, was the source of the highest-energy rays. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration
Published: June 11, 2012 at 6:29 PM

GREENBELT, Md., June 11 (UPI) -- A NASA space telescope detected the highest-energy light ever measured in an eruption on the sun during a powerful solar blast, the space agency has reported.

The powerful solar flare, observed March 7 by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, produced such an outpouring of gamma rays -- a form of light with even greater energy than X-rays -- that the sun briefly became the brightest object in the gamma-ray sky, NASA said Monday.

"For most of Fermi's four years in orbit, its LAT saw the sun as a faint, steady gamma-ray source thanks to the impacts of high-speed particles called cosmic rays," Nicola Omodei, an astrophysicist at Stanford University, said. "Now we're beginning to see what the sun itself can do."

The March flare produced high-energy gamma rays for about 20 hours, two and a half times longer than any event on record, researchers said.

Solar eruptions are increasing as the sun moves toward the peak of its roughly 11-year-long activity cycle, expected in mid-2013, they said.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/06/...z1xXefakIU

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101828 06-12-2012 04:31 AM

the sun was on a vodka benge

][ lop guest User ID: 46957 06-12-2012 04:44 AM

Gamma rays are the strongest force known at this time. They have the ability to pass through solid matter & alter DNA. Once DNA has entered "altered states", there is no changing back to what once was. How long it takes to complete the alteration process, once exposed to a high enough dose, is not known.

Gammas are one of the least understood of the rays we can measure.

Change,.... at the molecular level.

It's about TIME for change,....

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 100397 06-12-2012 04:45 AM

So, if this happened in March, why are we just learning about this now? This does seem like a pretty big deal.

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 100397 06-12-2012 04:47 AM

This kind of reminds me of how Tepco admitted months later that the reactors at Daiichi were meltdown, when most in the forum world were saying that weeks after the explosions.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101895 06-12-2012 04:52 AM

Rager Wrote:

So, if this happened in March, why are we just learning about this now? This does seem like a pretty big deal.

Good question. Like why have they been observing a gas cloud approach the black hole in the center of our milky way galaxy since 2002 but only released that info this winter, a whole year and a half after they issued the Solar Flare Warning for seemingly no good reason.

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 100397 06-12-2012 04:55 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Rager Wrote:
So, if this happened in March, why are we just learning about this now? This does seem like a pretty big deal.

Good question. Like why have they been observing a gas cloud approach the black hole in the center of our milky way galaxy since 2002 but only released that info this winter, a whole year and a half after they issued the Solar Flare Warning for seemingly no good reason.

It's this kind of slow release that will always lead me to believe NASA isn't out for our best interests. We could have a massive flare that does major damage, but they probably would blame it on a EMP attack first, then say it was a solar flare after all.

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 100397 06-12-2012 05:18 AM

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 101895 06-12-2012 05:21 AM

Rager Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
Rager Wrote:
So, if this happened in March, why are we just learning about this now? This does seem like a pretty big deal.

Good question. Like why have they been observing a gas cloud approach the black hole in the center of our milky way galaxy since 2002 but only released that info this winter, a whole year and a half after they issued the Solar Flare Warning for seemingly no good reason.

It's this kind of slow release that will always lead me to believe NASA isn't out for our best interests. We could have a massive flare that does major damage, but they probably would blame it on a EMP attack first, then say it was a solar flare after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJTOt9Bgiyg

Yep, they're preparing themselves...

**Astrochik**

Here is the SOHO for the day

It's huge!!

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse...ff_512.mpg

Heartflowers

**Astrochik**

**tethys**

Discussed @1.47

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQ6hCf7_...ature=plcp

**tethys** · (This post was last modified: 06-12-2012 06:12 PM by tethys.)

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?...&year=2012

Here is the Spaceweather page for March 7th 2012. Gamma rays are not good for you. Time for more vitamin D -

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...143847.htm

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 36055 06-12-2012 06:19 PM

Its only true because the sun is so close and everything else is so far away.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 100150 06-12-2012 08:59 PM

This would explain the hot weather we had in March.