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Massive Explosion On the Sun

Posted by Soulskill on from the reminds-me-that-our-sun-is-a-molten-deathsplosion-factory dept.

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.

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  1. Re:SEEMS PAR FOR THE COURSE !! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A billion tons of material blown away.

    But "warming" is caused by "CO2".

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  2. Re:And yet... by mrsquid0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And others, who actually have a clue, will understand that you are just a troll.

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  3. Re:Better video by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, overrated or off-topic I get. But... troll? Was the Voyager intro offensive?

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  4. Re:The grammar fairy got me. by Capsaicin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    and it's's normative.
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    ParseError: Failed to detect semantic content.

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