Solar activity on the rise again

Posted by Shalista on 9/16/2011, 3:30 pm

http://www.space.com/12921-sun-solar-flares-faithful-sunspot.html An active region of the sun that blasted out powerful solar storms four days in a row last week likely isn't done yet, scientists say. Officially, the flare-spouting region is called sunspot 1283. But space weather experts have dubbed it "Old Faithful," after the famous geyser in the United States' Yellowstone National Park that goes off like clockwork. And the solar Old Faithful should erupt again before it dissipates, researchers said. "It still has a fair amount of complexity," said solar physicist C. Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "So we still have a pretty good chance of seeing some more stuff from this one."

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