Luke 21:25,26 NLT “And there will be strange signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides. People will be terrified at what they see coming upon the earth, for the powers in the heavens will be shaken.”
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a rare and fantastic sight last week: an eruption of new m-class solar flares during a partial solar eclipse.
The moon made a 2 and a half hour voyage between the sun and the SDO, the longest eclipse or “solar transit” ever recorded by the SDO.
Sunspot 1967, an older spot renamed from Sunspot 1944, began to erupt on January 30th with m-class flares. NASA officials said the sunspot is one of the biggest in the last 10 years. The spot is wider than seven Earths placed together.
The radiation from the flares is not pointed near the Earth so it will have no impact at all on communications and will not be a threat to astronauts in the International Space Station.
The medium level bursts are coming from the same area where a larger, much more dangerous X-class flare launched in January. That flare threatened the International Space Station astronauts with radiation to the point that a rocket delivery mission to the station had to be delayed for one day.
At least seven fireballs were captured by NASA cameras during the eruption.
