Tag Archive | Hale’s “Law of Sun-spot Polarity” (1925)

SPACEWEATHER: X-1 Class Solar Flare Aimed at Earth

The explosion might have hurled a faint halo CME toward Earth

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 08/14/2024, UPDATED

X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: As predicted, strangely-magnetized sunspot AR3784 (described below) produced an X1-class solar flare today. The explosion was directly facing Earth:

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SPACEWEATHER: Anomaly of Polarization Sunspot AR3784

Hale’s “Law-Breaking” Sunspot AR3784

Breaking Hale’s Law of Sunspot Polarity

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 08/14/2024

A STRANGELY MAGNETIZED SUNSPOT: Sunspot AR3784 is breaking Hale’s Law. According to that hundred-year-old rule, sunspots in the sun’s northern hemisphere should be polarized like this: . Instead, AR3784 is polarized like this: . This magnetic map from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the 90-degree twist:

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