Gargantuan sunspot unleashes X3.98-class solar flare! Spacecraft views

Sunspot AR3664 has been blasting X and M flares for several days. Its latest was an X3.98-class solar flare on May 10, 2024. Full Story: www.space.com/...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks.
Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams / helioviewer.org| edited by Steve Spaleta ( / stevespaleta )

[@Jrad117]

It just getting started. The next 10 years should be interesting, eyes up.

[@astronomicstudios4261]

Not really, we are in 2024 and the Sun's acticity peak is in 2025. Then it's activity will calm down. (The Solar cycle lasts 11 years)

[@drunkenramblingswithaaron7708]

And this is the SIXTH CME sent our way in like a day and a half...

[@vosa8268]

Perfect The SUN Perfect Nature.

[@kwdoug]

Suspicious observers is still the number one go to Channel

[@souljahroch2519]

💯👍👍👍✌️

[@ThomasAlan47]

Absolutely not, if you research him rather than just watch his videos and believe without hesitation based off his tone and word articulation you’ll understand he’s a con and made money of his bogus app

[@Musicdudeyoutub]

He gives good information, mixed with fearmongering and scientific speculation.

[@roslyntaber9580]

Dwayne chéri mon si merveilleux amour Je t'aime si fort chéri Love so Space with u chéri and love so the Sun and his life Its so beautiful so stunning so fascinating and always so moving like u Dwayne chéri ...

[@rosebissWildGooseNews]

Yeah I watch suspicious observer he talked about this yesterday why are you so late with it

[@DEViLDUB07]

Who knows. Maybe he had some personal stuff to do before he could upload? Idk.

[@raylaux8295]

This X 3.9 happened today. not yesterday snowflake

[@The_North_Meng]

dude this is a new one! the sixth go to his channel Johnny come lately!

[@william2772]

Suspicious observer is the only legit one covering space weather.

[@NGC-catseye]

@@william2772 I can name ten others

[@souljahroch2519]

6 CMEs, & 2 coronal hole streams hitting at once! Stock up on food, & water, & stay close to home. Shit's gonna go down.🧐✌️

[@memesyandhorrorshorts]

Shittttt i gotta go to work me and my gf work at wallmart 😂 i work 5-10 and she works 3-11 💀😂 and different city so its a 8 mile walk hopefully cars still work if the power goes out ima disconnect the battery on my car just in case the sun frys all electronics ima miss my phone if so 😂

[@stevenboyd5044]

Does anyone know what material protects the cameras sensor from the radiation?

[@sun.activity]

Thanks for this question. "e2v technologies established a manufacturing process using a reduced dielectric thickness between the CCD electrodes and the underlying silicon such that the same charge storage density as standard devices could be obtained with 7 V imaging area clock voltages. Modeling showed that we would achieve the required 150k to 200k electrons full-well capacity within a 4-phase 12 μm pixel. Operation with 5 V clocks reduces the charge storage density. For the serial register, we therefore increased the width and hence the charge storage area of the pixels to recover > 200k electrons charge handling capacity. The thinned dielectric process also reduces transistor bias requirements, allowing output amplifier operation with ~ 22 V bias. Thinning the dielectric of a 50 × 50 mm CCD carried the risk of an increase in the number of shorts to substrate. Such shorts are fatal and so could reduce manufacturing yield sufficiently to threaten the viability of a flight program. A proof-of-concept development program was therefore initiated, from which first results were extremely encouraging with all basic imaging and charge storage characteristics appearing to have been met. However, more exhaustive testing revealed a low-level smearing of charge in the imaging area columns with strong evidence of charge ~ 100 electrons being deferred at the imaging area to serial output register boundary. It was also found that the problem could be largely eliminated by running the serial register clocks with 6 V amplitude. A subsequent modification in mask design and a second generation of devices enabled fully satisfactory operation with 5 V clocks. However, by this point in the program we had already identified a space-qualified, radiation-hard CMOS buffer compliant with nominal operation at 6 V and an absolute maximum rating of 7 V. The use of this IC, operated at 6 V, would provide increased operating margin and enabled us to retire all risk concerning the initial deferred charge issue of early devices." Source, more www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10565/2309196/Systems-approach-to-the-design-of-the-CCD-sensors-and/10.1117/12.2309196.full?tab=ArticleLink . ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017SPIE10565E..03W/abstract

[@EdWeibe]

@@sun.activity dont give away info for free.

[@stevenboyd5044]

@@sun.activity so not a lead glass ND filter then? 😂 Wow. Thanks for the reply. Space is terrifying.

[@TroyRubert]

@@sun.activityDamn dude thanks for posting that, super interesting.

[@briankel]

Gold?

[@ZeusAltayer]

Yep

[@andreiverdes]

We should have the Earth as a scale dot or line on the screen somewhere

[@drunkenramblingswithaaron7708]

The 'C' in Space in the bottom left is probably pretty close to scale actually

[@russellthechemist8291]

I can the sunspot with just my eyes. Wow!

[@flyboy21141]

Don't

[@michaeltrepanier914]

Qanon was finally updated with the final firmware

[@TheNewEarthCollective1]

Solar flares help raise the vibration of our planet.

[@souljahroch2519]

They can also produce CMEs that can knock out power grids, & communications. This is one of those events.🧐

[@AshLytton_JesusLovesYou]

They fry it actually but ok 👍

[@ocrampalevu2042]

Gargantua the black hole

[@lourdessilva6442]

Sem palavras

[@n057828]

The SUN of man is near …

[@johnferry7778]

You’re in the wrong comments section.

[@pelangos]

I Am the Storm

[@Musicdudeyoutub]

Everybody has a funny feeling, just don't get too funny now...

[@RMS-us4hx]

This is worst than the carington Event in the 1800s it will take out Wi-Fi Ect it’s not good! Especially now days!

[@frankishe7317]

Except it's not, Carrington was like an X40, we'll be OK

[@killersiw]

!!

[@TA-zh9rg]

This is what controls the overall climate , not CO2

[@Musicdudeyoutub]

Doomsday preppers unite

[@ithinkimbackjw]

LET UR RIP

[@uw2610]

THE END OF THIS WORLD IS COMING 🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋🌋😎😎😎😎😎😎😇😇😇😇😇😇

[@mother.95]

What does a white Inb-red Christian think about this phenomenon? Do we have their validation yet?

[@DEViLDUB07]

Don’t tell me. Don’t tell me. We all die??

[@Ohnomega]

You would be dead already if it was that serious.

[@DEViLDUB07]

@@Ohnomega oh I know. I’m just fuckin around. It is a beautiful shot. Needed some levity I thought.

[@noahgossett6134]

It hasn't hit the earth yet. It will midday today.

[@DEViLDUB07]

@@noahgossett6134 oh I see. I genuinely know nothing about space really. Only it’s dangerous and lonely. But I’d love to learn more. I love space and it’s all amazing. Thanks for the information everyone.

[@EdWeibe]

Earth has survived much worse.