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'Monster' Solar Storm Erupts On the Sun (Amazing Picture Included!)
Space.com ^
| 02/26/2011
| Space.com
Posted on 02/26/2011 2:27:23 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
The sun unleashed a powerful flare Thursday (Feb.24) that while not the strongest solar storm ever seen let loose a massive wave of magnetic plasma in a dazzling display.
The solar flare kicked up a huge, twisting tendril of plasma that scientists call a solar prominence. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the flare in an eye-catching video, with mission scientists calling the eruption a "monster prominence."
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; solaractivity; solarcycle; solarflare
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
That really is an amazing photo.
To: tet68
“Dont forget to slather yourself in butter first.”
Check, and maybe some parsley flakes.
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posted on
02/26/2011 4:16:42 PM PST
by
dljordan
("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
To: amom
You couldn’t be more wrong.
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
The sun unleashed a powerful flare ThursdayOh boy. That's exactly what the Titanic did just before it disappeared into the ocean.
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posted on
02/26/2011 5:07:20 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
To: Steely Tom
It’s not really smoke. It’s superheated gas/plasma, mostly hydrogen. It falls for one reason because the sun’s gravitational field is almost 30 times as much as earth’s. And, the ‘atmosphere’ of the sun is pretty low density, so it gives little resistance to falling matter. (If you made chemical smoke in a vacuum on earth, it would fall as fast as a brick.)
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posted on
02/26/2011 6:01:54 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
To: Right Wing Assault
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posted on
02/26/2011 6:03:22 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
My physics and astrophysics are several decades rusty: Doesn’t the damaging radiation from these things reach the earth at the same time as the light used to take the picture? And if that’s true, would we ever be able to know ahead of time about the one that fries civilization as we know it?
Can we know, somehow, that it’s “on it’s way,” or do we just wake up one morning and find we no longer have to see Obama’s face on our now-useless TVs?
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posted on
02/26/2011 6:32:29 PM PST
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: DoughtyOne
>> “I could be wrong, but my take on it is that over the last few thousand years, what is taking place today is tame compared to other periods.” <<
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From whence would come the evidence to support such a belief?
To: Aevery_Freeman
We're barely starting solar cycle 24.
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posted on
02/26/2011 7:15:57 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: editor-surveyor
Well, these sun spots are described in terms as if they were becoming near catastrophic. Sorry, I just don’t buy into that. Call it a gut feeling or whatever. As I stated, I may be wrong.
I didn’t provide evidence, and I did describe it as my take, not a scientific argument.
Since this seems to have offended you, why don’t you explain why.
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posted on
02/26/2011 8:17:31 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Here's the proof of Obama's U. S. citizenship: " " Good enough for our 3 branches...)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
HOW LONG TILL IT HITS? (AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL HIT OAKLAND)
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posted on
02/26/2011 10:43:39 PM PST
by
montag813
(http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
To: darth
If we could tap into THAT we would have an enormous new energy source. Sorry, not green enough for Obozo unless it involves Unicorns.
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posted on
02/26/2011 10:45:05 PM PST
by
montag813
(http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
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posted on
02/27/2011 12:51:59 AM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
That’s one crazy view of our star. It’s really amazing to see it that close up.
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posted on
02/27/2011 3:58:06 AM PST
by
Crucial
To: Myrddin
Oops! My bad. Why did they put those numbers so close on the keyboard.
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posted on
02/27/2011 6:23:59 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(It's not the *Prince of Fools* but rather the *fools* that are the problem)
To: dagogo redux
Charged particles from the Coronal Mass Ejection weaken the ionosphere which in turn allows the constant flux of solar radiation - the stronger than light variety - to reach the Earths surface. Nowadays that means satellites get whacked, too.
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posted on
02/27/2011 6:28:32 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(It's not the *Prince of Fools* but rather the *fools* that are the problem)
To: Fractal Trader; tubebender; mmanager; Fiddlstix; FrPR; enough_idiocy; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; ..
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posted on
02/27/2011 11:12:25 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
("Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips)
To: fanfan; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
"This garden universe by grace complete"... thanks fanfan.
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posted on
02/27/2011 5:41:57 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Paris says ... "That's hot"
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posted on
02/27/2011 6:04:05 PM PST
by
Scythian
To: Right Wing Assault
That vid would not play. I found another
here.The original video is 16sec long. This version is from Space.com, who added the loop and background music.
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posted on
02/27/2011 8:06:22 PM PST
by
skeptoid
(The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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