Watch an Enormous “Plasma Snake” Erupt from the Sun

universetoday.com/ ^ | Jason Major

[BenLurkin]

Over the course of April 28–29 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.

[BenLurkin]

Link to video: https://youtu.be/yt_nq9F4dyo

[GodAndCountryFirst]

Signs of the End Times are everywhere. It’s getting hard to ignore them.

[dayglored]

Wow. Just... wow. Hard to conceive of how freakin' big that is.

Thanks for posting!

[VanDeKoik]

You do know the Sun does this all the time for billions of years?

[Responsibility2nd]

Enormous Plasma Snake - Ping

[Buckeye McFrog]

Plasma Snake would have been a cool name for a heavy metal band in the 80’s.

[MrB]

Wow... you’re old!

[DungeonMaster]

Our sun is one of the smallest and most stable stars there are. Imagine a giant or supergiant star’s activity.

[b4its2late]

Even better on Suspicious Observers daily report and analysis. I even joined.

[Slings and Arrows]

Free snake ping.

[ETL]

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).

[NormsRevenge]

Did it have a little carvile serpent head at the end of it?

Now that would be cool. Well.. Plasma is kinda hot.. So ..

[RayChuang88]

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.

[Rodamala]

[henkster]

heh heh heh heh....

He said "Enormous Plasma Snake." heh heh heh heh....

[Salamander]

Too big to carry home. :-\

[Slings and Arrows]

On the bright side, think of what it would have cost to feed it.

[SunkenCiv]

Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Across the Sun

[Rockpile]

I thought that our sun was bigger than about 80% of the other stars.