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NOAA says tonight's 'cannibal' solar storm could be worst in 165 YEARS and cause GPS and power outages - as they reveal exact time it'll hit​

Earth could witness the worst solar storm in 165 years as five streams of plasma released from the sun this week are set to make crash into our atmosphere tonight.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed Friday that the worst-case scenario would be what happened during the 1859 Carrington event, which set telegraph stations on fire and cutting communications worldwide.

In our modern-day society a geomagnetic storm - a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere- of that magnitude would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage to critical infrastructure.

Scientists have also predicted that three of the five streams, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), could combine to create a powerful 'cannibal CME.'

Data about what is in store for our planet will likely be captured around 8 pm ET when the explosions of plasma racing through space will be nearly one million miles from our planet - and NOAA plans to issue alerts immediately.

Sunspot AR3664, which released flares this week, had reached a size that now competes with the sunspot responsible for the Carrington even


Sunspot AR3664, which released flares this week, had reached a size that now competes with the sunspot responsible for the Carrington event.

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I have some sensitive equipment bundled up and safe in a small Faraday cage, just in case...

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Dejan Corovic

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nivek said:

NOAA says tonight's 'cannibal' solar storm could be worst in 165 YEARS and cause GPS and power outages - as they reveal exact time it'll hit​

Earth could witness the worst solar storm in 165 years as five streams of plasma released from the sun this week are set to make crash into our atmosphere tonight.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed Friday that the worst-case scenario would be what happened during the 1859 Carrington event, which set telegraph stations on fire and cutting communications worldwide.

In our modern-day society a geomagnetic storm - a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere- of that magnitude would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts and damage to critical infrastructure.

Scientists have also predicted that three of the five streams, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), could combine to create a powerful 'cannibal CME.'

Data about what is in store for our planet will likely be captured around 8 pm ET when the explosions of plasma racing through space will be nearly one million miles from our planet - and NOAA plans to issue alerts immediately.

Sunspot AR3664, which released flares this week, had reached a size that now competes with the sunspot responsible for the Carrington even


Sunspot AR3664, which released flares this week, had reached a size that now competes with the sunspot responsible for the Carrington event.

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Two friends of mine, one in San Francisco, one in London both have reported seeing these auroras. Its rearrests thing for auroras to show up in London. They must had been extremely strong. Indeed those in San Francisco photos look very bright:


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Scientists have spotted 60 stars that appear to show signs of gigantic alien power plants​

A survey of five million distant solar systems, aided by 'neural network' algorithms, has discovered 60 stars that appear to be surrounded by giant alien power plants.

Seven of the stars — so-called M-dwarf stars that range between 60 percent and 8 percent the size of our sun — were recorded giving off unexpectedly high infrared 'heat signatures,' according to the astronomers.

Natural, and better understood, outer space 'phenomena,' as they report in their new study, 'cannot easily account for the observed infrared excess emission.'

Ever since theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson first proposed the idea at Princeton in 1960, astrophysicists have speculated that advanced extraterrestrials might have constructed massive solar energy collectors around one star or more.

While powering their spacefaring ET civilizations, these hypothetical 'Dyson spheres,' would reveal themselves by radiating more heat than usual, the physicist argued.

Astrophysicists and planetary scientists call 'Dyson spheres' and other concepts like them 'technosignatures,' or simply signs of technology out there in the universe.

Technosignatures can range from these incredible feats of engineering to more humbling signs, like technologically made pollution — including nitrogen dioxide gas from combustion exhaust or the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that once threatened Earth's ozone layer years ago, both detectable via telescopes light-years away.

Two teams of astronomers, led by Matías Suazo at Uppsala University in Sweden and Gaby Contardo at the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy, ran the latest hunt for the tell-tale infrared data that might reveal a distant 'Dyson sphere.'

The researchers merged data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope and the ground-based infrared telescope survey MASS2.

While there may be other explanations for the excess infrared signatures they found, Suazo noted, 'The most fascinating explanation could be actual Dyson spheres.'

Suazo's group in Sweden determined that seven, red M-dwarf stars, each no farther than 900 light-years from Earth, appeared to be producing as much as 60 times more infrared heat than would be expected based on their size.

On their hunt for 'Dyson spheres,' the researchers merged data from the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope and the ground-based infrared telescope survey MASS2. Above, stars that could have ET power plants


For each red dwarf star, they calculated how much of its radiation would have to be blocked off by some possible energy-collecting tech in order to produce the measured ratio of infrared heat vs. visible light.

The values ranged from 3 percent to 16 percent coverage for the seven unusual stars they identified.

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'This isn't like a single solid shell around the star,' as one member of Suazo's team, astrophysicist Jason Wright at Pennsylvania State University, told New Scientist.

If these stars proved to be surround by alien power plants, in other words, they'd likely be a variant on the all-encompassing Dyson sphere dubbed a 'Dyson swarm.'

Such a swarm could come in the form of a large fleet of satellites, which would orbit these stars as a means of collecting energy.

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