Massive Explosion On the Sun

Endoflow2010 sends word of an enormous eruption that occurred on the Sun this morning. Phil Plait describes it thus: "What you’re seeing here is a solar flare (an enormous explosion of pent-up magnetic energy) coupled with a prominence (a physical eruption of gas from the surface). This event blasted something like a billion tons of material away from the Sun. Note the size of it, too: while it started from a small region on the Sun’s surface, it quickly expanded into a plume easily as big as the Sun itself! I’d estimate its size at well over a million kilometers across." The attached video is well worth watching.

Comments

Comment from the space.com article

[uigrad_2000]

"It's nothing we really have to worry about," Young said in his video. "It's just really, really beautiful."

Translation: You can begin panicking now!

Be careful

[Anonymous Coward]

Before you watch the video PLEASE find a way to do so without looking at it directly. A pinhole viewer (http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/pinhole3.html) will allow you to view your AVI files without suffering damage to your eyesight.

It's dead, Jim

[gmuslera]

Noone can survive such explosion, not even the Sun. Maybe won't be apparent by now, but we will see the consequences of this next year.

Re:SEEMS PAR FOR THE COURSE !!

[Anonymous Coward]

But "warming" is caused by "CO2".

Of course it is, Jeremiah Cornelius! Ya fuckin' faggot!

Re:SEEMS PAR FOR THE COURSE !!

[digitig]

A billion tons of material blown away.

But "warming" is caused by "CO2".

Well... if the sun were not there, global warming would not be an issue. I'll grant you that.