incredible bursts from sun

If you've been watching the sun images from SOHO, check out the latest images of LASCO C2 & LASCO C3:

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

I've never seen such spectacular energy outputs, normally there's just sort of a set of small rays, nothing ever like this.

Your link doesn't work for me.....

Doesn't work for me either

second line

Is this the link you wanted to post?
www.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

edit- Nope, that doesn't work either

Edit again- your link is the same as the google link, so it should work, but saying that, the link on google doesn't work either. Did I not read on this very website, that they were turning off all the sats around th sun?

[edit on 26/10/2009 by Acidtastic]

its not his link, none of the other links i have to soho or nasa.gov are working... type nasa.gov in your browser, it gives a error..
this is weird

now i wish the op could of captured the images and uploaded them here.
Makes one wonder.

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov... is down...

Error! Could not connect to remote server You tried to access the address sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov... which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page. Make sure your Internet connection is active and check whether other applications that rely on the same connection are working.

[edit on 26-10-2009 by severdsoul]

NASA's server crashing just as we get something interesting.

Why am I not surprised.

it is a bit strange, even if they did turn off the satalites, or upgrade or something, the website should still be there..
or at least connect to a blank page..
its as if it never existed, and cant connect at all. Very unusual indeed.
hmm wonder where else we could get the op's images, soho cant be the only source.
Now i'm realy interested to see

Are we so broke that nasa cant pay the $10 bucks for the domain name? *LOL*

[edit on 26-10-2009 by severdsoul]

reply to post by apacheman


I think this deserves a LOT more attention. Does someone out there that normally monitors these know if it's normal for them all to be down at once?

Originally posted by severdsoul
its not his link, none of the other links i have to soho or nasa.gov are working... type nasa.gov in your browser, it gives a error..

Actually, just typing nasa.gov never worked for me, always had to add the 'www'. If you do that now, you'll see the main NASA website works fine.

i48.photobucket.com...
*********THIS IS A SHOT OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE SOHO WENT DOWN**********
Here is a screenshot.

I smell a coverup.

This is crazy, the sun exploded and the soho site is not working!

[edit on 26-10-2009 by downtown436]

Take a look at

www.solarcycle24.com

It always has all the current info about the Sun. Nothing spectacular as far as I see.

reply to post by severdsoul

For my wallpaper I use SOHO's daily picture of the sun so obviously I'm on the SOHO website at least once a day. How odd that it's down.

reply to post by posterboy


good catch, i'm so use to servers nore requiring the 'www' any more that i forgot.
Still very odd for the soho to be offline

According to space weather, they say a sunspot has been growing over the weekend but that its nothing major. Anything really big will affect our satellites so we should notice it even without NASA....

We need some of the heavy hitting astronomers to get on here and let us know what is going down!

Flag this thread, and lets get some attention pointed at it.

www.spaceweather.com...

is this what you're talking about?
the giant sunspots?

Very strange indeed.

I've even tried the Cache version on google and that is down as well.


There is something a little strange going on. Ten bucks says the image is gone when the site comes back up.

Phage anybody?

~Keeper

OK....very basic sun question here-

How long does it take sunlight to get to earth?

This mirror site at the European Space Agency is still working, although the pictures are just links to the SOHO server that is down:

sohowww.estec.esa.nl...

There is something about a SOHO roll maneuver that is scheduled for today.

"SOHO will perform a special 360-degree science roll maneuver on 26-Oct-09 between 13:50 and 23:50 UT. The roll comprises 10 segments (10 degrees, 8 x 45 degrees, -10 degrees), after which SOHO will be back in its nominal roll attitude."

Originally posted by Signals
OK....very basic sun question here-

How long does it take sunlight to get to earth?

If I remember correctly, about 4 hours.

But knowing me, I just made that up......