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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 13 Sep, 2022
| Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination)
Posted on 09/13/2022 2:52:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Earlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament's full extent was estimated to be over half of the Sun's radius -- more than 350,000 kilometers long. A filament is composed of hot gas held aloft by the Sun's magnetic field, so that viewed from the side it would appear as a raised prominence. A different, smaller prominence is simultaneously visible at the Sun's edge. The featured image is in false-color and color-inverted to highlight not only the filament but the Sun's carpet chromosphere. The bright dot on the upper right is actually a dark sunspot about the size of the Earth. Solar filaments typically last from hours to days, eventually collapsing to return hot plasma back to the Sun. Sometimes, though, they explode and expel particles into the Solar System, some of which trigger auroras on Earth. The pictured filament appeared in early September and continued to hold steady for about a week.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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posted on
09/13/2022 2:52:54 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
09/13/2022 2:53:30 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
It’s coming out of ....
What’s Uranus doing on the sun?
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posted on
09/13/2022 2:53:42 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
I’m not a science expert or anything, but the Sun really looks warm and fuzzy in that photo.
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posted on
09/13/2022 3:06:01 PM PDT
by
gw-ington
(My preferred pronouns: she, him, it, senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
09/13/2022 3:14:56 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: gw-ington
the Sun really looks warm and fuzzy in that photoAt aprx 6,000F at the surface your warm and fuzzy would be quickly incinerated.
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posted on
09/13/2022 3:36:56 PM PDT
by
JPG
(MAGA)
To: MtnClimber
It’s the Saint Louis Arch!
Let’s all go get a snocone!
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posted on
09/13/2022 3:41:31 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
To: MtnClimber
Those are some serious dust bunnies!
To: DannyTN
What’s Uranus doing on the sun? That's my business. Heh.
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posted on
09/13/2022 4:00:59 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: gw-ington
It looks like Fozzy Bear, waka waka.
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posted on
09/13/2022 4:10:59 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
That white space is about the size of the entire Earth!..................
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posted on
09/14/2022 5:10:23 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: MtnClimber
EUW!
Mr. Sunny has worms!
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posted on
09/14/2022 5:18:45 AM PDT
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mewzilla
(We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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posted on
09/14/2022 8:13:02 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
To: JPG
the Sun really looks warm and fuzzy in that photoAt aprx 6,000F at the surface your warm and fuzzy would be quickly incinerated.
Yeah, but that temperature's in Fahrenheit. In Celsius, it's nicely warm and fuzzy. Trust me, I won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics so I know what I'm talking about.
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posted on
09/14/2022 11:07:01 AM PDT
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gw-ington
(My preferred pronouns: she, him, it, senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
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posted on
09/14/2022 11:31:19 AM PDT
by
JPG
(MAGA)
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