Elphaba Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Monster ProminenceNASA: When a rather large M 3.6 class flare occurred near the edge of the Sun on Feb. 24, 2011, it blew out a gorgeous, waving mass of erupting plasma that swirled and twisted for 90 minutes. Beyond amazing!Elphaba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew0059 Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Absolutely stunning! We live in such a majestic universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 WOW that is one heck of a sun fart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saldrin Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 Need marshmallows and yes it looks cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipplecutBuddha Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 They should have put up a scale-sized dot to show the earth in relation to that gorgeous event. The universe God has given us is constantly a wonder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rameumptom Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 (edited) I'm blaming it on Global Warming and George W. Bush! :)Seriously, the Sun is going through a new cycle where we're going to see massive flares, etc.Here's a Solar Tsunami from 2009:Monster Waves on the Sun are Real - NASA Science Edited March 3, 2011 by rameumptom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saldrin Posted March 3, 2011 Report Share Posted March 3, 2011 I'm blaming it on Global Warming and George W. Bush! :)Seriously, the Sun is going through a new cycle where we're going to see massive flares, etc.Here's a Solar Tsunami from 2009:Monster Waves on the Sun are Real - NASA ScienceThat rascally W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipplecutBuddha Posted March 5, 2011 Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 I'm blaming it on Global Warming and George W. Bush! :)Seriously, the Sun is going through a new cycle where we're going to see massive flares, etc.Here's a Solar Tsunami from 2009:Monster Waves on the Sun are Real - NASA ScienceSome fun number crunching I did with the stats on that solar wave....it was 100,000 Km high. That's 7.83 times the diameter of the earth. It was taller than seven earths....almost eight.The wave traveled at 250 Km/second or 560,000 miles per hour....that's Mach 729, or 729 times faster than sound travels. The space shuttle reaches a maximum speed of Mach 23. The SR-71 flew at mach 3+. Most commercial airliners fly in the range of Mach .8 to .9Finally, the explosive force was measured at 2.4 million megatons, or 48,000 times the size of Tsar Bomba, Russia's (and the world's) largest nuclear explosion, which was 52 megatonsTsar Bomba alone was 1400 times the power of both bombs dropped on Japan, or 10 times the power of all the conventional explosives used in all of WWII. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiJolly Posted March 5, 2011 Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 Good thing it was aimed AWAY from the earth! HiJolly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saldrin Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Good thing it was aimed AWAY from the earth! HiJollyAnd good thing no one had beans... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmarch Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 heres a good one on size comparison :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipplecutBuddha Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 heres a good one on size comparison :) Mind = destroyedJust imagine when we find a star larger than Vy Canis Majoris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Thus proving the fallacy of an overinflated ego. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrabbleRouser Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 And here I thought global warming was brought on by the end of the Cold War... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmarch Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Mind = destroyedJust imagine when we find a star larger than Vy Canis Majoris no joke that would be somethin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmarch Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 They should have put up a scale-sized dot to show the earth in relation to that gorgeous event. The universe God has given us is constantly a wonder.earth would be about a 4 to 5 pixel sphere in that video.. about twice the size of this period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargantuan Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Monster ProminenceBeyond amazing!ElphabaThanks for the flick about the sun's power and radiance. After just witnessing the death of my mother and life leaving her body, I know that her spirit has moved onto a better world. It is amazing how God the creator of heaven and earth can continue in His majesty by revealing the majestic phenomenon of the sun's power, and yet His greatest creations are His spirit children. Many Blessings, Gar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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