Amazing Eruptions on the Sun!

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Departing sunspot 1069 is crackling with solar flares. Just yesterday it erupted more than half a dozen times. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) video-recorded each of the explosions with a clarity ten times better than HDTV. Click on the image to view a sample:

http://spaceweather.com/swpod2010/0...vie.mpeg?PHPSESSID=eibgj8s3c58pcrki6flvfnjs43

On the "Richter scale" of solar flares, the eruption you just witnessed registered C2.4. In years past, solar physicists regarded C-flares as minor events, but SDO is revealing them to be quite spectacular. Here are three more examples from May 8th: C1.8-flare, C9-flare, B7-flare.

This amazing footage comes from an observatory that has only been in space for a few months and is still being commissioned. Mission scientists are so busy calibrating sensors, developing software, and generally getting acquainted with their spacecraft, they barely have time to interpret the torrent of data. This will change in the weeks ahead as the commissioning phase winds down and the discovery phase revs up. Then the real excitement begins. Stay tuned!
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I dont know about anyone else but I find the sun fascinating!
 
copacetic said:
If that thing explodes, we are ****ed!
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Im sorry you feel that way. I could give you links to sites that will tell you that 'something' leaves the body at death so as to try make a point that we carry on living after we 'die', but I dont think that would change your beliefs towards our most prominent source of energy available to us :/
 
Razer0 said:
Im sorry you feel that way. I could give you links to sites that will tell you that 'something' leaves the body at death so as to try make a point that we carry on living after we 'die', but I dont think that would change your beliefs towards our most prominent source of energy available to us :/
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Dude, I was just kidding and making a joke about when the sun runs out of hydrogen in roughly five billion years and engulfs the earth in its death throes.

What's this 'something' that leaves the body? :confused:
 
What is WRONG with you people??!!! Have none of you watched 2012? I dont know about you boys, but I have already started digging my hole! Run for your lives people....we all going to die!!! EEEKKK
 
ocleroux said:
What is WRONG with you people??!!! Have none of you watched 2012? I dont know about you boys, but I have already started digging my hole! Run for your lives people....we all going to die!!! EEEKKK
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Man, that was probably the most ridiculous movie I have ever had the misfortune to watch. Coincidence, after coincidence after coincidence. What a load of pig testicles it was.

Cheri_N said:
Knowing?
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Pardon?
 
copacetic said:
Dude, I was just kidding and making a joke about when the sun runs out of hydrogen in roughly five billion years and engulfs the earth in its death throes.

What's this 'something' that leaves the body? :confused:
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oops, I cant read emotions on the internets. Nevermind!

To the 'something' - what I know so far is that the body becomes lighter right at the moment of death, even if its an insanely small number
 
Razer0 said:
oops, I cant read emotions on the internets. Nevermind!

To the 'something' - what I know so far is that the body becomes lighter right at the moment of death, even if its an insanely small number
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Oh yeah, I've read about that, I believe it the weight of the air expelled from your lungs.

Or something. :confused:
 
copacetic said:
Oh yeah, I've read about that, I believe it the weight of the air expelled from your lungs.

Or something. :confused:
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But this man was in a plexiglas-type coffin where no matter could enter nor escape. The whole space, including himself, was measured.
 
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