Piece of sun breaks off, stuns scientists: ‘Very curious’

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This is new, in that I've never heard this one before. An actual, piece of the sun, in metal form, I believe has broken off the sun.

The remarkable phenomenon was caught by NASA on the James Webb Space Telescope and tweeted by Dr. Tamitha Skov, a space weather forecaster.

“Talk about Polar Vortex!” she wrote last week. “Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star. Implications for understanding the Sun’s atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!”

A prominence is a large, bright feature that extends outward from the sun’s surface. Other filament tear-aways have been observed in the past — not like this, though.

Solar physicist Scott McIntosh, the deputy director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, told Space.com that researchers aren’t sure what causes such a unique event

Once every solar cycle, it forms at the 55-degree latitude and it starts to march up to the solar poles,” McIntosh said. “It’s very curious. There is a big ‘why’ question around it. Why does it only move toward the pole one time and then disappear and then come back, magically, three or four years later in exactly the same region?”

So there is a cycle to this.
And finally,

While experts admit it probably has something to do with the sun’s magnetic field, the rest remains a mystery due to humanity’s limited view of its star. Scientists can only view the sun from the “ecliptic plane,” or the geometric plane that contains the orbit of Earth.

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission — which is taking photos of the sun while raising its orbit beyond the ecliptic plane — might provide answers, but until then, researchers are left scratching their heads.

Yet another rare occurrence happening with our sun. I had never of heard this before and thought it ATS worthy.
Any insight into this would be great, if anyone has a little more to tell about this chunk of star floating around in a tornado on the sun?

a reply to: AOx6179

My eyes aren't trained to know what I'm actually seeing, but it does seem to be a unique event from what I'm reading. All they have is speculation at the moment.

a reply to: AOx6179

Yet another rare occurrence happening with our sun

i have to disagree with it being a rare occurrence, maybe a better way to phrase that would have been might be a rare occurrence. from the reading of the article it says it is a cyclic occurrence that happens once every three years, that would mean it happens3 times in a decade.

also it says that other filaments brake away but not like this one, all that says to me is this is just as likely to be the first one we;ve ever seen from the view that we have, and says nothing of what has happened in the past or in the part we can't see.

a reply to: AOx6179

Must be our fault, because of....global warming....er, white supremacy......uh, no, misgendering.....ummmm, just send a lot of money to Al "rapist" Gore and Gretard Thunberg and it will be OK !!


Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket...

This happend 10 years ago and I am still stumped. And I really don't see much of anything on this latest story, but I would have thought they would want answers of this old incident more than this or if it's related? Something not passing the smell test here. Fishy. Even the date is odd. 10 year cycle proven or is it a event cycle?

Basically ten years and one month give or take between the two events.

originally posted by: BernnieJGato
a reply to: AOx6179

Yet another rare occurrence happening with our sun

i have to disagree with it being a rare occurrence, maybe a better way to phrase that would have been might be a rare occurrence. from the reading of the article it says it is a cyclic occurrence that happens once every three years, that would mean it happens3 times in a decade.

also it says that other filaments brake away but not like this one, all that says to me is this is just as likely to be the first one we;ve ever seen from the view that we have, and says nothing of what has happened in the past or in the part we can't see.

I get what you're saying. I was referring to the odd solar flares we've had recently that has made arora borealis in places it's not normally seen. I believe; even read somewhere where they found a new sunspot that's hotter or colder than they've seen. It's been a few occurrences like this going on with the sun. And I agree with the cycle of it all and just because we haven't seen it yet doesn't mean it hasn't happened before. I believe we've seen a few of these "haven't been seen yet/stumped all the smart scientists types.

I wrote this out too quickly, as always tho.

a reply to: Ilikesecrets

Was that a leviathan? sucking up the enegry from the sun? i would normally refer such things as leviathans.

originally posted by: vNex92
a reply to: Ilikesecrets

Was that a leviathan? sucking up the enegry from the sun? i would normally refer such things as leviathans.

The size alone would make it any large term. Leviathan is huge, but watery. Colossus would be a better term.

Limited hangout from NASA? I'm not trusting them one bit. Again, this will be used as an excuse for why we need to dim the sun with geoengineering wizardry that 'no-one' has ever used before, because - derp - global warming.... *cough, cough*...Chemtrails...Ahem..

a reply to: Ilikesecrets

Space has a lot of unknowns and many strange creatures in Space that we arent aware, leviathans, titans, water based Colossus creatures.
Would make sense i would agree with you slightly there.

There is a lot that is likely happening in Space that we arent being honestly told about.

Part of the sun breaks off...

My first thought.. well goodbye everyone I enjoyed my time

originally posted by: M5xaz
a reply to: AOx6179

Must be our fault, because of....global warming....er, white supremacy......uh, no, misgendering.....ummmm, just send a lot of money to Al "rapist" Gore and Gretard Thunberg and it will be OK !!


Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket...

Or the cow farts they keep complaining about.

originally posted by: Ilikesecrets
This happend 10 years ago and I am still stumped. And I really don't see much of anything on this latest story, but I would have thought they would want answers of this old incident more than this or if it's related? Something not passing the smell test here. Fishy. Even the date is odd. 10 year cycle proven or is it a event cycle?

Basically ten years and one month give or take between the two events.

Excellent observation, and well worth repeating!

a reply to: AOx6179

I'm calling BS on this because just like the Hubble Telescope, the JWST cannot focus anywhere near towards our sun without major damage to the camera system.

JWST WIKI Snippet:

Sunshield protection
Main article: James Webb Space Telescope sunshield

Test unit of the sunshield stacked and expanded at the Northrop Grumman facility in California, 2014
To make observations in the infrared spectrum, JWST must be kept under 50 K (−223.2 °C; −369.7 °F); otherwise, infrared radiation from the telescope itself would overwhelm its instruments. Its large sunshield blocks light and heat from the Sun, Earth, and Moon, and its position near the Sun–Earth L2 keeps all three bodies on the same side of the spacecraft at all times.[29] Its halo orbit around the L2 point avoids the shadow of the Earth and Moon, maintaining a constant environment for the sunshield and solar arrays.[26] The resulting stable temperature for the structures on the dark side is critical to maintaining precise alignment of the primary mirror segments.[27]

The five-layer sunshield, each layer as thin as a human hair,[30] is made of Kapton E film, coated with aluminum on both sides and a layer of doped silicon on the Sun-facing side of the two hottest layers to reflect the Sun's heat back into space.[27] Accidental tears of the delicate film structure during deployment testing in 2018 led to further delays to the telescope.[31]

The sunshield was designed to be folded twelve times (concertina style) so that it would fit within the Ariane 5 rocket's payload fairing, which is 4.57 m (15.0 ft) in diameter, and 16.19 m (53.1 ft) long. The shield's fully deployed dimensions were planned as 14.162 m × 21.197 m (46.46 ft × 69.54 ft).[32]

Keeping within the shadow of the sunshield limits the field of regard of JWST at any given time. The telescope can see 40 percent of the sky from any one position, but can see all of the sky over a period of six months.[33]

The cameras that took the photos are solar observatory satellites that orbit our planet. SOHO is one.
SOHO, WIKI
This solar "break away" happened on February 2, 2023 and solar scientists say while it was a semi-rare event, it was nothing special. I'm wondering what the NYT and other communist news organizations are up to trying to push something to the un-informed. Yall please do your research! Some of this Sh!t is getting ridiculous!

a reply to: AOx6179

When is elon going to mine that baby.... Nice find.

originally posted by: NightFlight
a reply to: AOx6179

I'm calling BS on this because just like the Hubble Telescope, the JWST cannot focus anywhere near towards our sun without major damage to the camera system.

JWST WIKI Snippet:

Sunshield protection
Main article: James Webb Space Telescope sunshield

Test unit of the sunshield stacked and expanded at the Northrop Grumman facility in California, 2014
To make observations in the infrared spectrum, JWST must be kept under 50 K (−223.2 °C; −369.7 °F); otherwise, infrared radiation from the telescope itself would overwhelm its instruments. Its large sunshield blocks light and heat from the Sun, Earth, and Moon, and its position near the Sun–Earth L2 keeps all three bodies on the same side of the spacecraft at all times.[29] Its halo orbit around the L2 point avoids the shadow of the Earth and Moon, maintaining a constant environment for the sunshield and solar arrays.[26] The resulting stable temperature for the structures on the dark side is critical to maintaining precise alignment of the primary mirror segments.[27]

The five-layer sunshield, each layer as thin as a human hair,[30] is made of Kapton E film, coated with aluminum on both sides and a layer of doped silicon on the Sun-facing side of the two hottest layers to reflect the Sun's heat back into space.[27] Accidental tears of the delicate film structure during deployment testing in 2018 led to further delays to the telescope.[31]

The sunshield was designed to be folded twelve times (concertina style) so that it would fit within the Ariane 5 rocket's payload fairing, which is 4.57 m (15.0 ft) in diameter, and 16.19 m (53.1 ft) long. The shield's fully deployed dimensions were planned as 14.162 m × 21.197 m (46.46 ft × 69.54 ft).[32]

Keeping within the shadow of the sunshield limits the field of regard of JWST at any given time. The telescope can see 40 percent of the sky from any one position, but can see all of the sky over a period of six months.[33]

The cameras that took the photos are solar observatory satellites that orbit our planet. SOHO is one.
SOHO, WIKI
This solar "break away" happened on February 2, 2023 and solar scientists say while it was a semi-rare event, it was nothing special. I'm wondering what the NYT and other communist news organizations are up to trying to push something to the un-informed. Yall please do your research! Some of this Sh!t is getting ridiculous!

That's the type of response I was hoping for. And you're right, I came at this pretty ignorant of what it actually was, and for some reason that particular satellite being the one to take those pics was fishy to me.
More doom porn to frighten us into hailing to our new "saviors?"

And thank you for that input. You have me looking in the right direction now.

Our sun starting to fuse heavier elements ?

a reply to: AOx6179

More Not A Space Agency nonsense

originally posted by: Gothmog
Our sun starting to fuse heavier elements ?

He’s the barnyard mr big

One of those comets with a nice tail must have impregnated the sun and it layed an egg.

Sounds kind of funny, but think about it, we actually know very little about things, our science is based off of the beliefs of the science....we could have it all wrong. So are we going to have another planet added to the family?