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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.)


45 posted on 02/26/2011 6:01:54 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Oops. I forgot the video.

http://www.space.com/10960-sun-whips-massive-flare.html


46 posted on 02/26/2011 6:03:22 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Our Constitution: the new Inconvenient Truth)
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