Posted on 07/17/2020 6:52:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
Credit: ESA
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This image — the closest ever taken of the Sun — shows the corona teeming with thousands of miniature solar flares, which scientists have dubbed campfires. The pictures are the first released from the Solar Orbiter mission, led by the European Space Agency.
“When the first images came in, my first thought was this is not possible, it can’t be that good,” David Berghmans, principal investigator for the orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument, told a press briefing on 16 July. “It was much better than we dared to hope for.”
“The Sun might look quiet at the first glance, but when we look in detail, we can see those miniature flares everywhere we look,” said Berghmans, a solar physicist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, in a statement.
The fires are just millionths or billionths of the size of the solar flares visible from Earth, which are energetic eruptions thought to be caused by interactions in the Sun’s magnetic fields. The mission team has yet to work out whether the two phenomena are driven by the same process, but the researchers speculate that the combined effect of the many campfires could contribute to the searing heat of the corona, the Sun’s outer atmosphere. The corona is hundreds of times hotter than the Sun’s surface, but the reason is a long-standing mystery.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Fire on the Sun?
STOP THE PRESSES!
Yes, but each one of those ‘campfires’ is as big as the entire EARTH!.................
Global Warming is really getting out of hand!
Is it okay to look directly at this picture?
AOC says you can land a space ship on the sun. You just have to do it at night.
Awesome.
LOL!......................
If a person takes a journey to the far side of the sun.
yes, but you must wear glasses...............
Oldie but goodie ...
AOC is correct. The North Koreans have already landed on the Sun.
Sun Rotation characteristics
Obliquity 7.25°[5]
(to the ecliptic)
67.23°
(to the galactic plane)
Right ascension
of North pole[16] 286.13°
19 h 4 min 30 s
Declination
of North pole +63.87°
63° 52’ North
Sidereal rotation period
(at equator) 25.05 d[5]
(at 16° latitude) 25.38 d[5]
25 d 9 h 7 min 12 s[16]
(at poles) 34.4 d[5]
Rotation velocity
(at equator) 7.189×103 km/h[12]
That’s where all the aliens bases are.
The “campfires” are apparently “European country size”.
https://www.space.com/campfires-on-sun-solar-orbiter-first-photos.html
I assume the reference is to, say, Germany or France (etc.) and not Liechtenstein.
Granted that “millions or billion times smaller” (than solar flares observed in the past) is quite a size range.
I couldn’t resist mentioning the old Sci Fi movie with Roy Thinnes.
Spoils the whole premise of the film.
Just the mirror opposite of here.
I know I know but I couldn’t resist
People should not be camping during this deadly pandemic. If you’re going to be stupid enough to leave your house and visit the sun, you should at least wear a mask and stay 6 feet from the sun at all times. Solar distancing is everyone’s responsibility. The ‘UV Rays Kill Covid’ conspiracy theory is intended to trick people of color into seeking refuge from the disease via a quick jaunt to this largish yellowy-orangey orb that has no effect on climate. Nothing could be less safe, during a pandemic. And if you’re on the sun camping or hiking, for God’s sake don’t drink the water there without a UL rated water purification/filtration device. Carry out what you carry in. It is illegal to burn your trash and toilet paper on the sun as a means of disposal.
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