Friday, May 9, 2014

Humongous Solar Flare

It is really quite humbling to realize how out of control we really are...in other words, we are in control of nothing.

We all live on a massive rock that is hurtling millions of miles per year around the sun...and we can't steer the rock in the least.  We just go wherever the earth goes.

We don't control the temp of the sun, we can't control ocean currents, we don't control asteroids that could smash into us, and the list goes on and on.

With that being said, the sun has been in a rather explosive rage as of late.  It was only recently revealed that in 2012, earth narrowly missed flying right through a solar explosion that could have knocked out all of our electricity for months.  That would have been interesting....

Today we find that NASA recently photographed a solar flare that was 'humongous' and was the best observed flare EVER!

Four spacecraft and one ground-based observatory recorded the eruption of a powerful X-class solar flare on March 29, making it the best-observed such event in history, NASA officials say.

Solar flares are powerful explosions with energies exceeding that of millions of hydrogen bombs. Never before has an X-class flare — the most energetic type — been observed by so many telescopes at once. A NASA video of the monster solar flare features several views of the March 29 sun storm.

The data from the unprecedented observation could help scientists better understand what catalyzes flares, and possibly predict when they will happen in the future — valuable information, considering that flares can cause radio blackouts on Earth, potentially disrupting aircraft, ship and military communication. 

In addition, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint NASA/European Space Agency effort, studied a coronal mass ejection (CME) that accompanied the flare.

CMEs, superheated clouds of plasma blasted into space at millions of miles per hour, can wreak havoc if they hit Earth, spawning geomagnetic storms that can potentially disrupt radio communications, GPS signals and power grids.

Here;  http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0509/NASA-captures-spectacular-images-of-humongous-solar-flare

Jesus holds all things together..."through Him all things are made".  This world isn't going to end one second before Jesus says so.  America is not going to go dark one second before Jesus says so...but isn't it amazing to observe how many people can look at this awesome creation and these startling photographs, and still come to the conclusion that "there is no god?"

"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God..."

More evidence to those who have heard The Word and believe The Word that The Word is true...all of it.


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