SOHO Captures Solar Eruption

Liora writes: "A Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite captures this awesome reminder of our own minuteness. There is an article mentioning it briefly from Lycos, but this is my favorite picture on the NASA site."

Comments

Fuck you!

[Pr0n K1ng]

Get it in you!

I got the first p!ost

Don't join the trolls on #trolls

[jamiemccarthy on]

Fuck their bullshit.

SOHO Website

[jsimon12]

Though this was pretty relevant, some of the other pics are cool.

OK so I'm immature...

[Conare]

"As this prominence became unstable, it erupted into the area"

Science can be so exciting!

A Tribute To The Greats (USian pie)

[pwpbot]

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Earth next to the fireball, to scale

[jsimon12]

Here is what the Earth would look like next to one of these puppies, probably would destroy all life here in the blink of an eye.

Re:Earth next to the fireball, to scale

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Well, putting the earth that close to the Sun would do that. However, if earth stays where it is, and given that no government has a current plan to move it; then even a direct hit would not cause more than a few service disruptions; it's happened before, plenty of times.

Re:Earth next to the fireball, to scale

[Liora]

From the article "If eruptions like these are aimed at Earth, they can disturb Earth's magnetosphere, but this one was not directed at our planet." I admit I'm dumb, but I'm also curious. What do you mean by service disruptions?

Re:Earth next to the fireball, to scale

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Power, telephony, GPS outages, loss of some satellites, also radio interference; that sorta thing. End of earth probably not included in package.

Thank you Doctor Obvious......

[jsimon12]

I am well aware the Earth is safe and that being at that proximity to the Sun would vapoize our little ball of rock, the point was those solar flares are amazingly large.

Re:Thank you Doctor Obvious......

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Wow; you must be excessively clever.

Minuteness...

[hackwrench]

Wait a minute! Is he calling us short? Sheesh.

Q-Bert's cute, but what about Pac-Man?

[astroboscope]

Subject says it all...

Re:Q-Bert's cute, but what about Pac-Man?

[astroboscope]

Hey moderator, did you actually look at the image of the Sun being discussed?

BBC has the story too

[Rupert]

Sun explodes

WTF?

[jsimon12]

Ya lost me on that response me bucko. Guess I ain't all that clever.