MAJOR X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: The sun produced a major X3.4-class solar flare today, Feb. 9th (1314 UT). Surprisingly, it did not come from the big “Martian sunspot,” described below. Instead the source was located just behind the sun’s southwestern limb. That means the partially eclipsed flare was even bigger than its nominal X3.4 rating. Earth just dodged a bullet. Stay tuned for updates. CME impact alerts: SMS Text
THE “MARTIAN SUNSPOT” IS FACING EARTH: A sunspot big enough to see from Mars is now turning to face Earth. NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars first noticed the sprawling sunspot group last week, photographing it using the rover’s MASTCAM. It was a behemoth then, and it has only grown bigger since. Here’s how AR3576 looked Wednesday from Argentina:
“The view was fantastic,” says Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau, who photographed the sunspot using a solar-filtered telescope in the town of Rafaela. “AR3576 appeared as a large archipelago containing a multitude of dark cores.”
In fact, the sunspot is even bigger than the picture suggests. There’s more of it visible in Poupeau’s full frame image. From end to end, the sunspot group stretches more than 150,000 km with at least 4 dark cores larger than Earth. You can see it using ISO-approved eclipse glasses–no magnification required.
AR3576 is big, yes, but of even greater interest is the sunspot’s magnetic complexity. This magnetic map from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a mixture of polarities in the sunspot’s core:
In the circled region, positive and negative magnetic polarities are so closely packed that you may need to look at this unlabeled map to see them clearly. Opposite polarities bumping together can cause explosive magnetic reconnection. Indeed, NOAA forecasters say this sunspot poses a threat for strong X-class solar flares–and Earth is directly in the line of fire. Stay tuned. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
Lisa’s addition.
We last saw Pluto mediated Blue Storm 3 days ago. We can see both today’s Yellow Human and Red Moon and the antipode Pluto mediated Blue Storm. There is Uranus as the Guide Power. This gateway stimulated the activity through the force of time.
Synchronicity is the Source of Consciousness 
