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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: -- 20th anniversary of largest solar flare --
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Posted by C. Alex Young and Raúl Cortés and Armando Caussa November 4, 2023 image caption: Sun activity 20 years ago today! It was November 4, 2003, when the sun produced the largest solar flare of the space age and one of the largest ever observed. The event was off the scale of our instruments. But later estimates suggested X40 … 40 times bigger than the threshold for an X-flare! And bigger than the flare that caused the famous Carrington Event of 1859. What happened? Read on. Image via the EIT telescope aboard SOHO. ....More at link provided.... |
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From: Earthstone, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: -- 20th anniversary of largest solar flare --
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I remember it well. Can't remember what the old solar system boards were called... was it syzygyjob.net? |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: -- 20th anniversary of largest solar flare --
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Yes, syzygyjob.net...theres still a few pages on wayback machine. |
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