THE CENTENNIAL GLEISSBERG CYCLE: You’ve heard of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But what about the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle? The Gleissberg Cycle is a slow modulation of the solar cycle, which suppresses sunspot numbers every 80 to 100 years. It may have been responsible for the remarkable weakness of Solar Cycle 24 in 2012-2013. New research published in the journal Space Weather suggests that the minimum of the Gleissberg Cycle has just passed. If so, solar cycles for the next 50 years could become increasingly intense. Read the paper here.
Plain Language Summary
The Earth’s inner radiation belt, dominated by high-energy protons, is influenced by solar activity. Studies have shown a correlation between the 11-year solar cycle and the proton population, with lower solar activity leading to increased proton flux. We analyzed data from NOAA-15 and NOAA-19 satellites to monitor the proton population above the South Atlantic Anomaly. Our findings indicate that the recent increase in solar activity, causing a significant decline in the proton flux, is correlated with the turnover in the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle, a longer-term modulation of solar activity spanning approximately 80–100 years.
As solar activity continues to rise over the next few solar cycles, we anticipate a further decrease in the proton population. This changing space climate will have implications for the design and operation of future satellite missions.
A major disruption of the polar vortex appears to be underway as the Arctic stratosphere suddenly warms. Researchers call this a “sudden stratospheric warming event.” It’s caused by planetary atmospheric waves crashing into the vortex and breaking it up. Cold air spilling out of the weakened vortex could plunge the USA, Canada, and parts of Europe into bitter cold little more than a week before the arrival of Spring. This also marks the end of polar stratospheric cloud season for Arctic observers.
CIR HITS EARTH, SPARKS AURORAS: If you’ve never heard of a co-rotating interaction region (CIR), just think of it as a mini CME. One hit Earth on March 8th, sparking more than 10 hours of geomagnetic storms. “The auroras in Minnesota were some of the brightest I’ve seen in a while,” reports Anna Eastman, who watched the show from the Agassiz Wildlife Refuge:
CIRs are transition zones between fast – and slow-moving streams of solar wind. They contain magnetic fields and shock waves akin to those of CMEs. While CMEs require some sort of explosion on the sun, CIRs do not. They form gently from the sandwiching of solar wind streams–no solar flare required.
A fast-moving solar wind stream has arrived on the heels of the CIR. This is the same stream that created the CIR in the first place by compressing a region of slower solar wind ahead of it. Blowing 600 km/s, the fast stream could cause additional category G1 (Minor) storms on March 10th. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.
The arrival of the CIR on March 8th immediately caused a G1-class (Minor) storm, intensifying to category G2 (Moderate) on March 9th. Sky watchers in Iceland, Canada, and multiple US states from New York to Utah saw the geomagnetic glow. “Even with a bright Moon, it was a beautiful light show,” she says.
Click on the inset diagram to learn more about CIRs.
We continue to have big snow storms in Michigan, more than usual and colder. Also high winds. This is a synchronicity since I see the changes in the magnetosphere QFactor and note it it below.
I use AccuWeather.com radar and look at the whole planet. The storm going over Michigan and the east coast is the biggest and most complicated on the planet right now.
We are evolving 3 Electric Valine RNA in our bodymind. The Maya symbol is ripener Yellow 3 Seed.
The 5gforce
I dissolve in order to question. Releasing fearlessness I seal the output of intelligence with the spectral tone of liberation. I am guided by my own power doubled.
Kin 76-Yellow 11 Spectral Warrior
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3 Jupiter, Venus, the asteroid belt, and 11 Uranus are pulsing in the destiny oracle from time to give us choices and memories in our lives.
With the Sun semi-sextile Neptune today, we should watch for avoidance that can feed guilt and undermine our confidence. We might deny those things that would require more energy and action from us if we acknowledged them. If we overlook our need for spiritual or non-material elements to our pursuits, we can feel vaguely dissatisfied now.
We’re also approaching aMercury-Chiron semi-square, pointing to some hesitation in making decisions. This transit challenges us to communicate with more sensitivity.
The Moon spends the day in the sign of balanced Libra, motivating us to harmonize. We’ll go to great lengths to make things fair and to compromise if needed. This transit brings relationship-focused, friendly, and considerate energy to the day.
The Moon’s square to Mars this afternoon can fire up our feelings and perhaps disruptively stir our need for action, activity, and challenges. A need for personal space may clash with relationship goals, and impatience is a possible downfall. Otherwise, this Moon transit helps us see the other side of a story or situation.
From cafeastrology.com 😇
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Amps have come down, but the electromagnetic background of earth is denser and more colorful than it was before. I attribute it to the steady position of the new surface frequency of 8.30 alpha hz for all evolving life.
Today is Tone 3, so we are pulsing in the deep earth Qfactor in F2. As you can see by the peak, there is a giant pulse up to beta hz 29 right on the cusp of gamma hz. This could be an earthquake in the Yellow Seed time portal in the S. Pacific south of Australia.
Nice synchronicity with Crystal Tone 12 today on the Blue Avalanche article.
SOMETHING FLARE-Y THIS WAY COMES: Yesterday, a sunspot hidden behind the sun’s northeastern limb produced an M9-(almost-X)-class solar flare. Today, the same sunspot is revealing itself, right here. It is clearly capable of strong explosions, which may become geoeffective as the sunspot turns toward Earth later this week. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
BLUE AVALANCHE LIGHTS IN CHINA: This might be something new. On the night of Oct. 27th, Chinese astrophotographer Shengyu Li set up his camera to record star trails over Mount Xiannairi in Sichuan, China. The long exposure had just begun when an icy serac broke free from a hanging glacier. Note the blue flashes within the ensuing avalanche:
“We have not found any previously documented cases of such an event. This discovery is thrilling for us. It is also intriguing,” says Li. “Our initial hypothesis is that the luminescence may result from friction-induced lighting during the fragmentation of ice.”
The phenomenon is called “triboluminescence.” Legendary physicist Richard Feynman describes it effectively. He said, “Take a lump of sugar. Crush it with a pair of pliers in the dark. You can see a bluish flash.”Some other crystals do that too. Nobody knows why.” You can create triboluminescent flashes yourself by smashing Lifesavers.
The avalanche Li witnessed was rich in ice. “A blocky serac started it,” says Carson Reid, a mountaineer who analyzed Li’s movie. “It randomly calved from a glacier near the mountain’s peak.” “The serac would have fragmented as it tumbled down and smashed into natural obstacles.” The most significant “smash points” seem to have produced the most blue light.
Li shared his movie with other astrophographers in China. One of them found a similar blue flash in footage of a completely different mountain in Xinjiang, China three weeks earlier:
“This is a timelapse video taken by Ms. Lu Miao on Oct. 3rd,” says Li. “It also shows a blue flash during an avalanche.” The mountain is Muztagh Ata, which means “Iceberg Father” in English.
“None of us photographers noticed the blue light with our naked eyes. We discovered it later when reviewing the photos,” says Li. “However, I asked some friends who frequently photograph snow-capped mountains. One of them mentioned seeing blue light with the naked eye during an avalanche. They didn’t capture it on camera.”
Readers, are you aware of this phenomenon? We would welcome references to earlier sightings and/or documented research. Let us know!
Now, there is an organized solar calendar. The sunspot cycle controls Time, and the time harmonic is synced exactly with solar time as galactic time. The Maya were not kidding around.
At the end of October, Turkish astronomer Senol Sanli made a composite image of the month’s sunspots, all 31 days. Take a look. Notice anything? (It’s not always 31)
There are more sunspots in the sun’s southern hemisphere–more than three times as many according to the Solar Influences and Data Analysis Center. This is the 4th month in a row the southern hemisphere has significantly outperformed the north.
(This is due to the binary triplet configuration of time. This is a preponderance of the S. Polar Zone of rhe earth holon, the bottom 5 lines of 13 tones at the bottom of the Tzolkin. They are strong movement in Seed, Night, Wind, Dragon, and Sun tribes which are Valine, Alanine, Glycine, Cysteine, and the Stop Codon in evolving RNA sequence.)
What’s going on? Solar physicists have long known that the two hemispheres of the sun don’t always operate in sync. (They are just dominant at different times based on evolutionary needs on earth)
Solar Max in the north can be offset from Solar Max in the south by as much as two years–a delay known as the “Gnevyshev gap.” The assymetry is illustrated in this graph of hemispheric sunspot numbers from the last 6 solar cycles:
Is the sun’s southern hemisphere experiencing its Solar Max right now? Maybe. We won’t know for sure until years from now when we can look back and see the final shape of Solar Cycle 25. Meanwhile, stay tuned for more southern sunspots.
The northern autumnal equinox is only two days away. That’s good news for sky watchers because auroras love equinoxes. Researchers call it the “Russell-McPherron effect.” At this time of year, cracks form in Earth’s magnetic field, opening the door for solar storms. Even a weak stream of solar wind or a glancing blow from a CME can spark a good display. Happy autumn! Aurora alerts:SMS Text
A BRGHT COMET IS APPROACHING EARTH: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) has just emerged from behind the sun, and its appearance has astronomers buzzing with anticipation. “The comet is brightening rapidly,” says Australian astrophotographer Michael Mattiazzo, who has been monitoring the comet in dawn twilight:
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on Sept. 17th in dawn twilight over Swan Hill, Australia
“The comet was only 6 degrees above the horizon when I photographed it on Sept. 17th,” says Mattiazzo. “Using 15x70mm binoculars, I estimated its visual magnitude to be +4.3.”
This is very good news. Some astronomers predicted Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS would fall apart during its transit behind the sun. The fact that it is still intact and healthy means we could witness a bright naked-eye comet next month.
“Prospects remain excellent for a visually impressive evening display in mid-October,” says Qicheng Zhang of the Lowell Observatory. “Weather permitting, the entire Northern Hemisphere should be able to see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.”
Nick James of the British Astronomical Association just wrote an article anticipating the bright comet. “It makes its closest approach to Earth on October 12 when it will be 0.47 au away in the constellation of Virgo,” he says. “There is a possibility that the comet will be at a negative magnitude as it emerges into the evening sky from Oct. 10th onwards.”
This light curve from astronomer Bum-Suk Yeom shows a huge spike in the comet’s brightness around Oct. 9-10. [more]
“Negative magnitude” means the comet could be visible in broad daylight, especially on Oct. 9th when light from the nearby sun will be forward scattered by comet dust, amplifying the comet’s brightness. “[Daylight photography of the comet] should only be attempted if you know what you are doing,” cautions James. “The sun will be very close by and this is potentially a very dangerous observation, similar to observing Venus at inferior conjunction.”
It’s been done before, though. Witness Comet McNaught in 2007, which was seen in broad daylight by thousands of observers. Could a repeat display be in the offing? Stay tuned for updates as Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS approaches Earth.
We are at the full moon, and we begin a new HF on Red 8 Skywalker tomorrow.
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CME IMPACT SPARKS SEVERE STORM: Arriving about 6 hours later than expected, a CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on Sept. 16th (2341 UT). The impact sparked a G4-class (Severe) geomagnetic storm with auroras sighted as far south as the Texas Panhandle. The storm has subsided, but it’s not over. Storm levels are now fluctuating between G1 (Minor) and G3 (Strong) as Earth moves through the CME’s wake. Aurora alerts:SMS Text
Full moonlight was supposed to spoil the show, but the auroras were bright enough to compete with the Harvest Moon. Paul Robinson sends this picture from Boulder, Colorado:
“Red rays were dimly visible to the unaided eye for about 5 minutes,” says Robinson. “I photographed them using my Samsung S24 phone in night mode.”
PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE HARVEST MOON: This week’s full Moon is special for several reasons.
(1) It’s the Harvest Moon, the full Moon closest to the autumnal equinox.
(2) It’s a perigee Moon, slightly closer to Earth than usual. And,
(3) It’s going to be partially eclipsed.
This animation created by reader Peter Zimnikoval shows the Moon grazing Earth’s shadow during the early UTC hours of Sept. 18th:
For sky watchers in the Americas, the eclipse occurs on Sept. 17th. Peak coverage occurs at 10:44 p.m. EDT (7:44 p.m. PDT), when a little more than 8 percent of the Moon will be in shadow.
Mainstream media stories are trumpeting this as a “supermoon eclipse.” Indeed, it is a supermoon, or as an astronomer would say, a “perigee Moon.” The Moon’s orbit is an ellipse with one side (“perigee”) about 50,000 km closer than the other (“apogee”). Full Moons that occur on the perigee side of the Moon’s orbit are extra big and bright. This week’s Harvest Moon becomes full within 10 hours of perigee, making it about 5 percent bigger and 13 percent brighter than usual. Is that really “super”? You decide.
Before the days of electric lights, farmers relied on moonlight to harvest ripening autumn crops after sunset. The partial eclipse will briefly dim the glow. Pro tip for farmers: Take your headlamp.
3D-One heart, love, and devotion are companions of my destiny.
4D mantra
5D mantra
I pulse in order to love. Realizing loyalty I seal the process of heart with the solar tone of intention. I am guided by the power of death.
Kin 230-White 9 Solar Dog
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5 Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, and 9 Venus. Our sun in Virgo is ruled by MERCURY
This is our Venus mediated Blue 9 Monkey as the Hidden Wisdom in time. SYNC. The Venus-Jupiter trine perfects very early today, and we’re learning about what we like and enjoy. It’s a good time to give one another the benefit of the doubt.
Same alignment as above. SYNC. Later today, Venus forms a biquintile to Uranus and Saturn, making it a strong time for devising strategies. It’s easier to wait for the right moment to act. There can be a willingness to make sacrifices. We are ready to exercise patience. This seems the best way to make improvements. We also have a game plan. We also recognize and appreciate the unique elements of people, situations, and projects today.
Today’s Aquarius Moon is good for objectivity.
Same Venus alignment in time as above. SYNC. With a Venus-Saturn parallel, we take our interactions, pleasures, relationships, and money more seriously.This brings a stronger sense of reality and responsibility in our relationships, providing a sense of security and stability.
The Sun is in ♍️ Virgo. Venus is in Libra.
From cafeastrology.com
The evolution of the Moon. 4.5 billion years in 2 minutes. Credit: NASA Goddard pic.twitter.com/qKmv7VYzOf
A CME (coronal mass ejection) hurled into space by yesterday’s X4.5-class solar flare will graze Earth on Sept. 16th, according to a NASA model. NOAA forecasters are predicting a strong G3-class geomagnetic storm when the CME arrives. During G3 storms, auroras can sometimes be seen with the naked eye from mid-latitudes–e.g., as far south as California, Missouri and Colorado in the USA. On Sept. 16th, however, bright moonlight could mitigate the display. Aurora alerts:SMS Text
SIGNIFICANT X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: New sunspot AR3825 erupted on Sept. 14th, producing a very strong X4.5-class solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash: Click to view a movie of the flare
Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere. This resulted in a deep shortwave radio blackout over South America and the mid-Atlantic Ocean: map. Ham radio operators and mariners may have noticed loss of signal at frequencies below 30 MHz. This could have lasted for as much as 30 minutes after the flare’s peak (1529 UTC).
The explosion also hurled a CME into space, and a NASA model confirms that it has an Earth-directed component. Strong G3-class geomagnetic storms are possible when the CME grazes Earth on Sept. 16th. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
EARTH’S RING CURRENT IS LEAKING: During the strong (G3) geomagnetic storm of Sept. 12th, Jeffery Dixon looked up from the Agawa Bay in Ontario, Canada. He saw a red band stretching across the sky. It was a sign that Earth’s ring current had sprung a leak:
“I’m not sure if it was aurora, STEVE or airglow,” says Dixon.
Actually, none of the above. Dixon photographed an SAR arc. SAR arcs were discovered in 1956 at the beginning of the Space Age. At first, researchers didn’t know what they were and unwittingly gave them a misleading name: “Stable Auroral Red arcs.” However, they are not auroras; the red glow comes from Earth’s ring current system.
Yes, Earth has rings. Unlike Saturn’s rings, which are vast disks of glittering ice, Earth’s rings are made of electricity. (Ya don’t say! Sync with the Harmonic) They form a donut-shaped circuit carrying millions of amps around our planet. During strong geomagnetic storms, thermal energy from the rings can leak onto the atmosphere below. This leakage imprints a red glow among the auroras.
SUNSPOT NUMBERS AT A 20-YEAR HIGH: For the second month in a row, the monthly-average sunspot number is cruising toward a 20-year high. The current value, around 230, would eclipse every month since Sept. 2001, which occured during the peak of old Solar Cycle 23. The current cycle (Solar Cycle 25) was not supposed to be this strong, and it may become even stronger before Solar Max is finished. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
AN EXPLOSION OF AURORAS: At first glance, you might think these images have been Photoshopped. They have not. At the stroke on midnight on Aug. 11/12, Canadian photographer Alan Dyer witnessed an explosion of brightly colored auroras:
“The event began with intense reds sweeping in from the east and engulfing the sky,” says Dyer, who recorded the display from Grasslands National Park in southwest Saskatchewan. “The greens followed, mixing with the reds to produce a bouquet of yellows and oranges.” It was over in less than 15 minutes.
Researchers call this an “auroral substorm.” First recognized in the early 1960s by a young Japanese physicist named Shun-ichi Akasofu, substorms have been studied for more than 50 years, yet to this day they are almost entirely unpredictable.
Substorms are caused by explosions in Earth’s magnetic tail. This movie from NASA shows the process in action:
The explosion, caused by magnetic reconnection in the overstretched tail, shoots a beam of energetic electrons and protons directly toward Earth. Auroras mark the broad spot where the particles strike Earth’s atmosphere.
“The substorm was at true midnight when we are looking straight down the magnetotail,” says Dyer. At the time, a strong geomagnetic storm was underway, so Earth’s magnetic tail was being stretched–a lot. It was the perfect setup for a blast.
SUNSPOT NUMBERS REMAIN HIGH: So far this month, average sunspot numbers are hovering between 200 and 250. If this continues for another 12 days, August 2024 will end up as the spottiest month. It will be the spottiest month in more than 20 years. August 2024 will rival the peak of old Solar Cycle 23. No mainstream forecasters predicted that Solar Cycle 25 (the current cycle) would be so strong. The sun has its own plans. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
WAITING FOR THE NEXT SPACEX SPIRAL: For more than a year, Zach Goldberg has been wondering what he saw. The aurora photographer was camping in Denali National Park in April 2023. Out of nowhere, a giant blue spiral pinwheeled across the night sky.
“We had no idea what it was,” says Goldberg. “Fortunately, we already had our cameras out for the auroras.” This is what he saw:
Mystery solved: It was a “SpaceX spiral.” On April 15, 2023, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. It carried 51 small satellites to Earth-orbit, a mission known as Transporter-7. When the rocket’s discarded upper stage passed over Alaska, it vented its unused fuel.
Spirals are a common side-effect of Transporter ride share missions. Within these Falcon 9 rockets, satellites from various clients have different destinations. SpaceX must rotate the rocket’s second stage for deployment. The de-orbit burn and fuel dump naturally spirals.
Another spiral appeared on March 5, 2024, when Transporter-10 deployed 53 satellites:
“I caught this in Akureyri, Iceland, around 1 a.m. local time,” says photographer Shang Yang. “It looked otherworldly against the Northern Lights!”
When will it happen again? Possibly in two months. The Transporter-12 mission is currently scheduled for October 2024. It could dump its fuel into a northern autumn sky filled with equinox auroras and Orionid meteors. Arctic photographers are encouraged to monitor the launch schedule and submit your images here.
Plasma is protein. Space protein manifests as earth protein or amino acid protein from the sun, from which all life is made. We are literally made of stardust. Last time I checked, stars weren’t considered junk RNA or dumb.-L.T.
Yesterday, Argentine astronomer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau was photographing the sun when one of the biggest prominences in years leaped into space.
“As I watched, the plasma fountain kept growing and reached an impressive height of more than 380,000 km, more than the distance between Earth and the Moon!” he says.
“This solar phenomenon was truly spectacular,” says Poupeau. “Extending like a serpent of fire (or a Dragon), the magnitude and beauty of the prominence left me in awe, reminding me once again of the majesty and power of the universe around us.”
On its way out of the sun’s atmosphere, the prominence entrained a CME and hurled it into space: movie. The CME won’t hit Earth, but it will strike Mercury during the late hours of July 18th. New research shows that this will probably ignite X-ray auroras at ground level on Mercury’s rocky surface.
Synchronicity
This is some great sync because at dusk tonight, we entered Hidden Wisdom White 3 Electric Dog, which is Christ’s birth gateway mediated by Mercury.
Growing sunspot AR3719 exploded on June 20th, producing a brief but intense M5.7-class solar flare. Radiation from the flare caused a 15-minute shortwave radio blackout over Hawaii. This sunspot was not expected to be very active, but now we know it adds to the chance of flares from behemoth sunspots AR3712 and 13. More on these below…
TWO VERY LARGE SUNSPOTS: Sunspots AR3712 and 13 are so large, they’re altering the sunrise. “The two sunspots were easy to see as the sun rose in morning haze over Gulf Shores, Alabama,” reports David J Kriegler, who took this picture at daybreak on June 20th:
Separately, each of these sunspots is about half as big as the great Carrington sunspot of 1859. Even half of a Carrington Event would be a historic solar storm, which is why we’re carefully monitoring the two active regions. Both have ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic fields that harbor energy for strong X-class flares. Stay tuned. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G2): NOAA forecasters say that G2-class geomagnetic storms are possible on June 10th when a CME launched by yesterday’s M9.7 flare is expected to hit Earth. The CME is bright and massive; a direct hit would probably cause a severe geomagnetic storm. However, this will be just a glancing blow, so only moderate storming is likely. Aurora alerts:SMS Text
SOLAR FLARE AND HARD RADIATION STORM: Sunspot AR3664 just did it again. The record-setting active region produced another very strong solar flare on June 8th (0149 UT), hurling a massive plume of plasma into space:
This was an category M9.7 event, only percentage points from X-class. Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing a deep shortwave radio blackout across the western Pacific Ocean: map.
The sunspot is currently located in a region of the sun that is magnetically well-connected to Earth. As a result, protons accelerated by the explosion are spiraling toward us, peppering the top of Earth’s atmosphere as well as all spacecraft near our planet. Here’s an example of the effect this can have:
Every speck of ‘snow’ in this SOHO coronagraph movie is caused by an energetic proton striking the spacecraft’s camera. Through the fog you can see a bright CME emerging from the blast site. It will sideswipe Earth on June 10th.
At the moment the radiation storm is category S1 (Minor), several levels below the peak of the scale. It does not pose a biological threat to astronauts or air travelers.
Nevertheless, this storm is interesting because it contains an unusually high fraction of “hard” protons with high energies > 100 MeV. Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. It would not be a surprise to hear reports of minor satellite problems in the days ahead. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
THE HIGHEST SUNSPOT NUMBER IN 22 YEARS: The average sunspot number for May 2024 was 172, the highest value in 22 years. So far, June is even higher at 200. If this continues for the rest of the month, June could log the highest sunspot counts since Dec. 2001, rivaling the peak of potent Solar Cycle 23. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
A NOVA WILL EXPLODE THIS SUMMER (PROBABLY): The night sky is about to get a new star. Sometime this summer, astronomers believe, a nova will explode in the constellation Corona Borealis (the Northern Crown). The exploding star will be bright enough to see with the naked eye even from light-polluted cities.
A NASA artist’s concept of the T CrB binary star system
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event,” says Rebekah Hounsell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “I believe it will create a lot of new astronomers out there.”
T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is a binary system 3,000 light-years from Earth. It consists of a white dwarf orbiting an ancient red giant. Hydrogen from the red giant is being pulled down onto the surface of the white dwarf, accumulating toward a critical mass. Eventually, it will trigger a thermonuclear explosion.
The last time T CrB exploded was in 1946. About a year before that blast, the system suddenly dimmed–a pattern astronomers called the “pre-eruption dip.” In 2023, T CrB dipped again, heralding a new eruption. If the 1946 pattern repeats itself, the nova should occur between now and September 2024.
A sky map showing the location of T CrB (red circle)
The outburst will be brief. Once it erupts, the nova will be visible to the naked eye for a little less than a week – but Hounsell is confident it will be quite a sight to see. The expected magnitude is between +2 and +3, similar to stars in the Big Dipper.
“Typically, nova events are faint and far away,” says Elizabeth Hays, chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard. “This one will be really close, with a lot of eyes on it. We can’t wait to get the full picture of what’s going on.”
Solar Cycle 25 is intensifying, and this is reflected in the number of cosmic rays entering Earth’s atmosphere. Neutron counts from the University of Oulu’s Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory show that cosmic rays reaching Earth are slowly declining–a result of the yin-yang relationship between the solar cycle and cosmic rays.
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH–CONTINUED: NOAA forecasters remain confident that a CME will graze Earth’s magnetic field on June 1st. It was hurled into space by an X1.4-flare on May 29th. The glancing blow could cause G2-class geomagnetic storms. CME impact alerts:SMS Text
YET ANOTHER X-FLARE: Sunspot AR3664 (a.k.a. AR3697) has decayed, but it is still potent. On May 31st it emitted another X-flare (X1.1), the third this week. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the extreme ultraviolet flash:
Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, briefly causing a shortwave radio blackout over the Pacific side of North America. Signals below 30 MHz faded for as much as 30 minutes after the flare’s peak (May 31st @ 2203 UT).
The flare, while intense, was too brief to lift a significant CME out of the sun’s atmosphere. SOHO coronagraph images show no solar storm clouds heading for Earth.
What makes a decaying sunspot like AR3664 so active? This magnetic map provides the answer:
Within the sunspot’s primary core, two oppositely-signed magnetic poles are crowded together, + vs. -. (Just like the Tzolkin Harmonic and our DNA-same thing) When this happens, magnetic recombination(Tone 1 in the magnetosphere QFactor Layer) can cause very powerful explosions even from a sunspot that’s falling apart. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of X-flares and a 75% chance of M-flares on June 1st. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
SPACE WEATHER BALLOON DATA: Almost once a week, Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus fly space weather balloons to the stratosphere over California. These balloons are equipped with sensors that detect secondary cosmic rays, a form of radiation from space that can penetrate all the way down to Earth’s surface. Our monitoring program has been underway without interruption for 7 years, resulting in a unique dataset of in situ atmospheric measurements.
Latest results (July 2022): Atmospheric radiation is decreasing in 2022. Our latest measurements in July 2022 registered a 6-year low:
What’s going on? Ironically, the radiation drop is caused by increasing solar activity. Solar Cycle 25 has roared to life faster than forecasters expected. The sun’s strengthening and increasingly tangled magnetic field repels cosmic rays from deep space. In addition, solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) sweep aside cosmic rays, causing sharp reductions called “Forbush Decreases.” The two effects blend together to bring daily radiation levels down.
.Who cares? Cosmic rays are a surprisingly “down to Earth” form of space weather. They can alter the chemistry of the atmosphere, trigger lightning, and penetrate commercial airplanes. According to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan school of public health, crews of aircraft have higher rates of cancer than the general population. The researchers listed cosmic rays, irregular sleep habits, and chemical contaminants as leading risk factors. A number of controversial studies (#1, #2, #3, #4) go even further, linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.
(So when you see reports saying that solar activity and the hertz ELM levels in the magnetosphere won’t affect you physically, they are lying. NASA I think, says they don’t. NOAA is not the same as NASA. They work together but basically, NASA is the Feds and they keep secrets from humanity big time. NOAA doesn’t.)
Technical notes: The radiation sensors onboard our helium balloons detect X-rays and gamma-rays in the energy range 10 keV to 20 MeV. These energies span the range of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners.
Data points in the graph labeled “Stratospheric Radiation” correspond to the peak of the Regener-Pfotzer maximum, which lies about 67,000 feet above central California. When cosmic rays crash into Earth’s atmosphere, they produce a spray of secondary particles that is most intense at the entrance to the stratosphere. Physicists Eric Regener and Georg Pfotzer discovered the maximum using balloons in the 1930s and it is what we are measuring today.
THESE RED LIGHTS ARE NOT AURORAS: Last Sunday, March 3rd, a CME hit Earth’s magnetic field. The surprisingly strong impact sparked a G2-class geomagnetic storm with bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. Upon closer inspection, however, not all of those lights were auroras. Some were “SAR arcs”:
During the storm, Märt Varatu photographed this red ‘bow over Kiia küla, Estonia. “It was a strong SAR arc,” he says.
SARs were discovered in 1956 at the beginning of the Space Age. Researchers didn’t know what they were and unwittingly gave them a misleading name: “Stable Auroral Red arcs” or SARs. In fact, they are not auroras.
Auroras appear when charged particles rain down from space, hitting the atmosphere and causing it to glow like the picture tube of an old color TV. SARs form differently. They are a sign of heat energy leaking into the upper atmosphere from Earth’s ring current system, a donut-shaped circuit carrying millions of amps around our planet. During the geomagnetic storm of March 3rd, this ring current sprang a significant leak. (That is the AMPLITUDE layer of the ScR. It could be supporting the C1 Cosmic layer to appear that pluses with Tone13.-LT)
The same red arcs were widely observed from Latvia to eastern Russia. Vladimir Nerush photographed this fragment just east of Moscow:
“It emerged from the trees and passed right by the Pleiades,” says Nerush. “The red color was so pure.”
Indeed, SAR arcs are among the reddest things in the sky, with a monochromatic glow at 6300 Å that comes from atomic oxygen in the upper atmosphere. The human eye is relatively insensitive to light at this wavelength; we have a hard time seeing SAR arcs. Cameras catch them easily, though. Pro tip for photographers: Use a 6300 Å filter.
This is 9White Worldbridger, Solar Threonine mediated by Mars
People with this birth gateway; George Lucas, Billy Joel, and Aretha Franklin.
Our theme is mediated by MARS but Neptune and Pisces loom large. One would think Mars and Neptune were opposites but I’ve learned, having an Aries Sun ruled by Mars and Venus in Pisces ruled by Neptune that Mars shores up unconditional love and healing with bravery on a planet of usage and and objectification of all DNA species. Venus in Pisces is the exalted position of love yet I can come across rough and exacting. I’m not. I will not waver on the fact that unconditional love and timelessness in the body-mind are real and that everyone can heal themselves if they work at it. Most of the energy on this planet says the opposite and they are in error. That’s fine. We have to accept error daily and in piles on this planet. Then we can be grateful for what we get right.
Speaking of error, this AI debacle with Google’s “oracle” Gemini was as out of sync with truth as anything could be. I hope you saw reports of it. Gemini is ruled by Mercury so more synchronicity and illumination of SHADOW in our society, of course from Google. Be on the lookout and speak up.
In the harmonic, we are also pulsing 9Mars, 9Uranus, 9Saturn, and 5Jupiter.
Sun, Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune are in the house of Pisces.♓️ From a time perspective, we are dealing with Red Dragon~White Mirror with all of these Pisces placements ruled by Neptune. There is nothing watery about Dragon and Mirror. These are transformational placements for our body-mind. Deep reflection is called for. Like the 2 Pisces fish going in different directions, the double-edged sword of White Mirror cuts both ways. This is the inception of DUALITY for our learning on earth.
Mercury enters Pisces today, where it will transit until March 10th. During this cycle, our thinking processes are more visual, intuitive, and imaginative. We are especially attuned to the world of emotion, which colors our thoughts and communication style. It’s a period for making decisions intuitively. We don’t enjoy pinning down, labeling, or strictly defining things during this transit. We recognize that life isn’t always logical, and we prefer not to think in black-and-white terms. We’re sensitive and impressionable, which means we can take in more than usual, and it can sometimes overwhelm us.
The Moon continues its transit of dramatic, determined Leountil 8:37 PM EST, when it enters logical, thoughtful Virgo.
Our full moon will be in Virgo ♍️, ruled by Mercury, and will occur tomorrow morning, serving to heighten our feelings. We may be coming to important realizations today and tomorrow.
The Moon is void until it enters Virgo today at 8:37 PM EST.
The 5gforce for Activation of the Central Axis
I empower in order to enchant. Commanding receptivity I seal the output of timelessness with the overtone tone of radiance. I am guided by the power of spirit.
Kin 174-White 5 Overtone Wizard, Goddess Ixchel (mediated by Maldek/asteroid belt)
ScR and Spaceweather
SCR-We have the highest pulse up possible in all four AMPLITUDE layers at Dusk, Russia time (which hits all over the world no matter what time it is there.) The frequency is 8.24hz at dusk. We had another very high pulse up on all 4 layers of the QFactor at DAWN, all at the same time. As I’ve said before, the layers function as ONE usually.
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G1): Minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on Feb. 25th when a CME is expected graze Earth’s magnetic field. The CME was *not* produced by this week’s X-flares. Instead, it was hurled into space by an erupting filament of magnetism (movie) on Feb. 21st. Aurora alerts:SMS Text
THREE X-FLARES, ZERO CMES: Giant sunspot AR3590 is living up to the hype. In only 23 hours spanning Feb. 21-22, the active region unleashed three powerfulX-class solar flares (X1.8, X1.7 and X6.3). The X6.3 flare is the strongest of Solar Cycle 25, so far, and the most powerful flare since the great solar storms of Sept. 2017. (All right before we enter HF33!!)
The ultraviolet afterglow of yesterday’s X6.3-class solar flare. Credit: NASA/SDO
Extreme ultraviolet radiation from each flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing shortwave radio blackouts over Hawaii (late on Feb 21st), Australia (early on Feb. 22nd), and Hawaii again (late on Feb. 22nd). Mariners and ham radio operators in those areas may have noticed loss of signal at all frequencies below 30 MHz.
You might think all these flares would have hurled at least one CME toward Earth. In fact, the number is zero. SOHO coronagraphs have not detected any CMEs emerging from the blast zone. Sometimes this happens. Flares can occur without CMEs, and CMEs can occur without flares.
Disappointed aurora watchers shouldn’t give up hope, though; AR3590 isn’t finished. The sunspot has an unstable ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field that harbors energy for more X-class explosions. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
Take it easy if you have a headache or your eyes hurt. Drink plenty of water, eat less, and use Refresh Eyedrops. Watch for eyedrop recalls. Starlink satellites from SpaceX are likely affected.
The Tomsk, Russia ScR station has been down for at least a day. I can’t start logging data yet. As far as the Earth Holon, we are squarely in the Blue Eagle TIme Portal at the N. Pole, 60 degrees N–105 degrees W in N. Saskatuan Canada by Uranium City on the border of the N. Territories. This area covers much of the East Coast expecting snowmagedden probably tonight, the Great Lakes (No big weather for us. Sunny here.), much of NE Canada and up into Greenland. The combination of the Time portal changes, earth changes, and the changes in the magnetosphere change the weather.
SOLAR RADIATION STORM–NOW: For the second time in less than a week, energetic solar protons are raining down on Earth’s upper atmosphere. Forecasters call this a “solar radiation storm.” Today’s storm (near category S2) is rich in “hard protons” wiith energies greater than 50 MeV. It is causing a shortwave radio blackout inside the Arctic Circle and speckling the cameras of some Earth-orbiting satellites. (Starlink)
The plot above shows storm data recorded by NOAA’s GOES-18 satellite in Earth orbit. Sensors on the satellite are counting energetic protons as they pass by en route to Earth. Triggered by an explosion near the sun’s southwestern limb (inset), this storm could last for another 24 hours. Solar flare alerts:SMS Text
IS A ‘CANNIBAL CME’ COMING? Since Feb. 7th, the sun has hurled multiple CMEs into space. A handful of them might hit Earth this week. A new NOAA forecast model shows at least three solar storm clouds approaching for strikes on Feb. 13th:
The closely-spaced arrival of these three CMEs could spark G1 (Minor) to G2-class (Moderate) geomagnetic storms with high-latitude auroras in northern Europe, Canada, and northern-tier US states from Maine to Washington.
There’s a chance the CMEs will pile up to form a Cannibal CME. This happens when one fast-moving CME sweeps up slower-moving CMEs in front of it. Cannibal CMEs typically contain strong shocks and enhanced magnetic fields that do a good job sparking geomagnetic storms. If such a pile-up occurs, the combined strike could cause a G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storm with auroras at mid-latitudes. CME Impact alerts:SMS Text
Extrapolating into the future, Solter worries that satellite debris could weaken Earth’s magnetic field–the same magnetic field that protects us from cosmic rays and solar storms.
Sierra Solter-NASA
I’m real popular on X.com posting stuff like this and actually all of my projects. NOT!
I appreciate NASA studying the issue though.
WILL MEGACONSTELLATIONS DAMAGE EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD? Something unprecedented is happening in Earth orbit. In only a few short years, the satellite population has skyrocketed, more than doubling since 2020. In the past year alone, more satellites have been launched than during the first thirty years of the Space Age. Much of this activity is driven by SpaceX and its growing megaconstellation of Starlink internet satellites.
Environmentalists have raised many concerns about Starlink including light-pollution of the night sky, a potentially hazardous traffic jam in low-Earth orbit, and even ozone depletion. Copycat megaconstellations by other companies and countries will only multiply these concerns.
Now there’s a new reason to worry. According to a new study by Sierra Solter, megaconstellations could alter and weaken Earth’s magnetic field.
Solter is a graduate student at the University of Iceland, working on her PhD in plasma physics. She recently realized something overlooked by many senior colleagues: “More than 500,000 satellites are expected in decades ahead, primarily to build internet megaconstellations. Every satellite that goes up will eventually come down, disintegrating in Earth’s atmosphere. This will create a massive layer of conducting, electrically charged particles around our planet.”
To understand the scale of the problem, consider the following: If you gathered up every charged particle in Earth’s Van Allen Belts, their combined mass would be only 0.00018 kg. Other components of the magnetosphere such as the ring current and plasmasphere are even less massive. For comparison, “the mass of a second generation Starlink satellite is 1250 kilograms, all of which will become conductive debris when the satellite is eventually de-orbited,” says Solter.
Metal debris from a single deorbited Starlink satellite is 7 million times more massive than the Van Allen Belts. An entire megaconstellation is billions of times more massive. These ratios point to a big problem.
“The space industry is adding enormous amounts of material to the magnetosphere in comparison to natural levels of particulate matter,” says Solter. “Due to the conductive nature of the satellite debris, this may perturb or change things.”
There is already evidence of this process in action. A 2023 study by researchers using a high-altitude NASA aircraft found that 10% of aerosols in the stratosphere contain aluminum and other metals from disintegrating satellites and rocket stages. These particles are drifting down from “the ablation zone” 70 to 80 km above Earth’s surface where meteors and satellites burn up.
Solter decided to look for changes in the electrical properties of the ablation zone–and she found something. A NASA model of the upper atmosphere shows a sharp increase in the “Debye Length” just where satellites break apart when they deorbit:
“Debye Length” is a number that tells researchers how far an unbalanced electrical charge can be felt in conducting plasmas. The fact that it changes abruptly in the same place satellites disintegrate may be significant.
Extrapolating into the future, Solter worries that satellite debris could weaken Earth’s magnetic field–the same magnetic field that protects us from cosmic rays and solar storms.
“It’s a textbook undergraduate physics problem,” she explains. “Suppose you put a conductive shell (satellite debris) around a spherical magnet (Earth). Outside the shell, the magnetic field goes to zero due to shielding effects. This is a highly simplified comparison, of course, but we might actually be doing this to our planet.”
Solter’s preliminary study appears to show that the space industry is indeed perturbing the environment. “It is very concerning,” she concludes. “We absolutely cannot dump endless amounts of conductive dust into the magnetosphere and not expect some kind of impact. Multidisciplinary studies of this pollution are urgently needed.”
For more information, you can read Solter’s original research here.
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