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Enormous Structure on Surface of Sun Appears to Be Coming Apart
.newsweek.com/ ^ | 7/18/22 | ED BROWNE ON

Posted on 07/19/2022 11:22:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Aspace photographer has shared an image of a huge prominence on the surface of the sun that is speculated to be coming apart.

Solar prominences are large, bright loops of plasma—electrically charged hydrogen and helium gas—that extend outwards from the surface of the sun. They can be truly massive in scale, sometimes tens of times larger than the Earth.

While solar prominences can take just a day to form, they can be stable enough to persist for months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space while anchored to the sun's surface.

Solar prominences can sometimes disintegrate or collapse altogether. This happens when the magnetic field in their vicinity become unstable, such as if a new magnetic field line pokes through the sun's surface beneath the prominence...

The collapse of a solar prominence can cause an explosion of material away from the sun which releases what's known as a Hyder flare, named after astrophysicist Charles Hyder who studied these events.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: sun
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1 posted on 07/19/2022 11:22:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Planetary Warming.


2 posted on 07/19/2022 11:24:06 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (DJT24)
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To: BenLurkin

if you build in an unstable environment, you are gonna have foundation problems.


3 posted on 07/19/2022 11:24:41 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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4 posted on 07/19/2022 11:25:11 AM PDT by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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To: teeman8r

Upon the solid rock, I stand.


5 posted on 07/19/2022 11:25:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Just when I thought it was safe to not wear sunscreen, dangit.


6 posted on 07/19/2022 11:26:29 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: BenLurkin

Crap source


7 posted on 07/19/2022 11:27:11 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: BenLurkin

Probably a CME, coronal mass ejection.

Think Schiff and Swalwell.

5.56mm


8 posted on 07/19/2022 11:29:03 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: BenLurkin

The CDC is developing a new anti-flare vaccine at this very instant. Clinical trials will be suspended, as usual.
Sheltering in place for two weeks will slow down the spread of the conflagration.
Sarc off


9 posted on 07/19/2022 11:29:35 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: BenLurkin

I am waiting for the scientist to tell us that giving up our gas vehicle will save the sun and thereby the earth.


10 posted on 07/19/2022 11:29:43 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Pray for our nation! It needs it!)
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To: BenLurkin

Sorry, my bad. I left a window open while the air conditioner was running. Will probably be the end of the solar system.


11 posted on 07/19/2022 11:30:10 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Planetary Warming.

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Intergalactic!


12 posted on 07/19/2022 11:30:28 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: BenLurkin

Gravity resumes control of the gaseous matter that escaped the immediate surface of the sun


13 posted on 07/19/2022 11:30:47 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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So are we all gonna die? Do we have time to party first?


14 posted on 07/19/2022 11:31:02 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: BenLurkin

The sun has a fever!


15 posted on 07/19/2022 11:32:04 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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All other ground is sinking sand.

16 posted on 07/19/2022 11:34:50 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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The Sun has flatulence, who knew?


17 posted on 07/19/2022 11:36:04 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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“Science” reporting has become as hysterical as other reporting with hyperbolic clickbait headlines that promise content that isn’t in the articles. Disgusting.


18 posted on 07/19/2022 11:36:05 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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19 posted on 07/19/2022 11:37:14 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: GMMC0987

“Sorry, my bad. I left a window open while the air conditioner was running. Will probably be the end of the solar system.”


You were helping to cool down the earth. Now if that had been a heater running, then yes.


20 posted on 07/19/2022 11:38:07 AM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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