NASA has released very shocking news today about Earth Black out in 2013. According to NASA reports, the earth is going to massive solar storm in May 2013 which will have capacity to damage the earth and technology like satellites, GPS, mobile phones, television, radio. The solar storm can eject high radiation and charged particles into space which could lead to heavy magnetic fields that will become hazardous for functioning of satellites and space stations. Some experts are predicting that the damages as a result of this solar storm will be as huge as twenty times then the damages occurred due to Hurricane Katrina in year 2005. It could leave millions of people around the globe without electricity, water, and phone service. Experts are saying that it could cost $2 trillion to fix the resulting mess due to solar storm.
Is the 2012 solar flares likely to happen & blackouts ?
“likely” to have black-outs? no
solar flares in 2012? slightly higher risk than now.
The Sun is in a very inactive phase at the moment. Probably will be a mild Solar Maximum in 2012, but Solar Flares can occur any time.
I heard a major sun solar flare is expected by 2011 and there could be a global electricity grid wipeout.?
The History Channel, right?
The sun reaches “solar maximum” ever 11 years or so. Sunspot and solar flare activity increases in the time leading up to this, and decreases afterwards in an 11-year cycle. The next maximum is 2012, but flares can occur any time; they’re just more likely in the couple of years either side of that.
Powerful solar flares (which are rare) can cause communications difficulties and problems with power grids. Nothing that doesn’t occur anytime there’s a major thunderstorm, just more widespread.
Solar activity… 2010, 2011, 2012?
I’m just wondering if anyway knows: Is 2010 supposed to be a year of high solar activity or low solar activity?
And do you really think there will be major blackouts in 2011/2012? Is there any proof there there will/will not be?
I know that solar activity can be unpredictable but I’m just wondering if anyone has any theories.
ALSO: If there IS a solar storm that causes a major black out (The way that some scientists are predicting) What do you think the government will do about it? Will we be prepared?
I suggest looking at NASA’s 2012 FAQ page, specifically questions 14 and 15 dealing with the solar storm issue.
click here
Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the photosphere of the Sun that appear visibly as dark spots compared to surrounding regions. They are caused by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection, forming areas of reduced surface temperature. Although they are at temperatures of roughly 3,000–4,500 K (2,727–4,227 °C), the contrast with the surrounding material at about 5,780 K leaves them clearly visible as dark spots, as the intensity of a heated black body (closely approximated by the photosphere) is a function of T (temperature) to the fourth power. If the sunspot were isolated from the surrounding photosphere it would be brighter than an electric arc. Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the sun and can be as large as 80,000 kilometers (49,710 mi) in diameter, making the larger ones visible from Earth without the aid of a telescope.
Manifesting intense magnetic activity, sunspots host secondary phenomena such as coronal loops and reconnection events. Most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate in magnetically active regions around visible sunspot groupings. Similar phenomena indirectly observed on stars are commonly called starspots and both light and dark spots have been measured.
A solar flare is a large explosion in the Sun’s atmosphere that can release as much as 6 × 1025 joules of energy[1](about a sixth of the total energy output of the Sun each second). The term is also used to refer to similar phenomena in other stars, where the term stellar flare applies.
Solar flares affect all layers of the solar atmosphere (photosphere, corona, and chromosphere), heating plasma to tens of millions of kelvins and accelerating electrons, protons, and heavier ions to near the speed of light. They produce radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at all wavelengths, from radio waves to gamma rays. Most flares occur in active regions around sunspots, where intense magnetic fields penetrate the photosphere to link the corona to the solar interior. Flares are powered by the sudden (timescales of minutes to tens of minutes) release of magnetic energy stored in the corona. If a solar flare is exceptionally powerful, it can cause coronal mass ejections.
X-rays and UV radiation emitted by solar flares can affect Earth’s ionosphere and disrupt long-range radio communications. Direct radio emission at decimetric wavelengths may disturb operation of radars and other devices operating at these frequencies.
Solar flares were first observed on the Sun by Richard Christopher Carrington and independently by Richard Hodgson in 1859 as localized visible brightenings of small areas within a sunspot group. Stellar flares have also been observed on a variety of other stars.
The frequency of occurrence of solar flares varies, from several per day when the Sun is particularly “active” to less than one each week when the Sun is “quiet”. Large flares are less frequent than smaller ones. Solar activity varies with an 11-year cycle (the solar cycle). At the peak of the cycle there are typically more sunspots on the Sun, and hence more solar flares.
Solar storm can refer to:
Solar flare – a large explosion in the Sun’s atmosphere
Coronal mass ejection (CME) – a massive burst of solar wind associated with solar flares
Geomagnetic storm – the interaction of the Sun’s outburst with Earth’s magnetic field
Solar storm of 1859
Solar storms of 2012[1][2][3]
ok a lot of people and websites are saying that the world would end in 2012, but how would it end?
Answer: The entire idea of 2012 is completely bogus. It goes to show, never believe the History Channel. They are the people that started this craze of false, misleading so called “information” which is nothing more than junk. No self respecting scientist would ever believe in this sort of thing.
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