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Watch an Enormous “Plasma Snake” Erupt from the Sun
universetoday.com/ ^
| Jason Major
Posted on 04/30/2015 11:53:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Over the course of April 2829 a gigantic filament, briefly suspended above the surface* of the Sun, broke off and created an enormous snakelike eruption of plasma that extended millions of miles out into space. The event was both powerful and beautiful, another demonstration of the incredible energy and activity of our home star
and it was all captured on camera by two of our finest Sun-watching spacecraft.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: cme; coronalmassejection
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posted on
04/30/2015 11:53:24 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
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posted on
04/30/2015 11:53:44 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Signs of the End Times are everywhere. It’s getting hard to ignore them.
To: BenLurkin
Wow. Just... wow. Hard to conceive of how freakin' big that is.
Thanks for posting!
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:00:52 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
To: GodAndCountryFirst
You do know the Sun does this all the time for billions of years?
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:01:01 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: BenLurkin; Slings and Arrows; Lazamataz
Enormous Plasma Snake - Ping
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:01:52 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
To: BenLurkin
Plasma Snake would have been a cool name for a heavy metal band in the 80’s.
To: VanDeKoik
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:02:51 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: BenLurkin
Our sun is one of the smallest and most stable stars there are. Imagine a giant or supergiant star’s activity.
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:06:06 PM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(God is very intollerant, why shouldn't I be?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:07:56 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Salamander
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:09:12 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Demonicide" - http://youtu.be/FgUWow7WT2Y | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
To: dayglored
For scale, at 8,000 miles in diameter, you can place 110 planet earths side-by-side across the diameter of the nearly 1 million mile wide Sun (the white ring in the graphic).
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:21:38 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: BenLurkin
Did it have a little carvile serpent head at the end of it?
Now that would be cool. Well.. Plasma is kinda hot.. So ..
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:30:49 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: BenLurkin
This is why the Sun is closely monitored nowadays, especially now we're just past the Solar Maximum peak. This is a period we could get gigantic coronal mass ejections (CME's) or even a really big X Class solar flare, something that if it directly hits the Earth could cause a repeat of the famous Carrington event of 1859, but with much more destructive consequences in knocking out the planet's electric power grid.
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:31:51 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/30/2015 12:49:01 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: Buckeye McFrog
heh heh heh heh....
He said "Enormous Plasma Snake." heh heh heh heh....
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posted on
04/30/2015 1:04:45 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
To: Slings and Arrows
Too big to carry home. :-\
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:22:23 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away.)
To: Salamander
On the bright side, think of what it would have cost to feed it.
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posted on
04/30/2015 2:42:27 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Demonicide" - http://youtu.be/FgUWow7WT2Y | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
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posted on
04/30/2015 3:40:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
To: DungeonMaster
I thought that our sun was bigger than about 80% of the other stars.
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posted on
04/30/2015 4:31:59 PM PDT
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Rockpile
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