Thursday, February 9, 2023

Thursday's parting shots

In case you weren't up at, say, 6:48-6:58 a.m. today  ... here's a look at the fiery sunrise. 

William Klayer shared this photo from Ninth Street looking toward Avenue A...
... and from Seventh Street between Avenue A and First Avenue... via Jackflashnyc...
... and 14th Street by Pinch...

6 comments:

Simon E said...

Lovely, it pays to look up from our hand held glowing rectangles!

Anonymous said...

Very cool and see y'all, worth it to get up with the dawn. Thanks for the photos.

Laura Goggin said...

Wow!

Anonymous said...

Amazing !

Anonymous said...

Just breathtaking!

Grieve said...

This happened 6 days ago, via Space.com (in reply to comments that a piece of the sun "broke off" on Feb. 9:

A huge filament of solar plasma has broken off the sun's surface and is circling its north pole like a vortex of powerful winds, but scientists have no clue what caused it.

"Talk about polar vortex! Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our star," space weather forecaster Tamitha Skov said on Twitter while sharing a video sequence taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory showing the odd whirlwind. "Implications for understanding the sun's atmospheric dynamics above 55° here cannot be overstated!"